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From: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tboegi@web.de
Subject: [PATCH v3] t9001: avoid not portable '\n' with sed
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:07:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5396849F.7060206@web.de> (raw)

t9001 used a '\n' in a sed expression to split one line into two lines,
but the usage of '\n' in the "replacement string" is not portable.

The '\n' can be used to match a newline in the "pattern space",
but otherwise the meaning of '\n' is unspecified in POSIX.

- Gnu versions of sed will treat '\n' as a newline character.
- Other versions of sed (like /usr/bin/sed under Mac OS X)
  simply ignore the '\' before the 'n', treating '\n' as 'n'.

For reference see:
pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sed.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html

As the test already requires perl as a prerequisite, use perl instead of sed.

Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
---
Sending a V3 patch seems "spammish", but after re-reading all
the comments I think that the commit msg should point out the difference
between POSIX sed and gnu sed somewhat better.

 t/t9001-send-email.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/t/t9001-send-email.sh b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
index 64d9434..19a3ced 100755
--- a/t/t9001-send-email.sh
+++ b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
@@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ test_cover_addresses () {
 	git format-patch --cover-letter -2 -o outdir &&
 	cover=`echo outdir/0000-*.patch` &&
 	mv $cover cover-to-edit.patch &&
-	sed "s/^From:/$header: extra@address.com\nFrom:/" cover-to-edit.patch >"$cover" &&
+	perl -pe "s/^From:/$header: extra\@address.com\nFrom:/" cover-to-edit.patch >"$cover" &&
 	git send-email \
 	  --force \
 	  --from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
-- 
2.0.0.553.ged01b91

             reply	other threads:[~2014-06-10  4:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-10  4:07 Torsten Bögershausen [this message]
2014-06-10  5:03 ` [PATCH v3] t9001: avoid not portable '\n' with sed Eric Sunshine
2014-06-10  5:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-10  6:30   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-06-10 15:38     ` Junio C Hamano

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