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authorSteven Schubiger <schubiger@gmail.com>2008-02-18 22:39:22 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-02-19 15:41:16 +0100
commit4f3ff2e7007a6591294e1a656782b5f239f9840c (patch)
tree7ed8264c7566377c6730cddaaf3b47567e73151b /tests
parenta1e715698a038af7ff341011a2aeecf6729c8de9 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-4f3ff2e7007a6591294e1a656782b5f239f9840c.tar.xz
seq: give better diagnostics for invalid formats.
* src/seq.c: (validate_format): New function. (main): Use it. * tests/misc/seq (fmt-d, fmt-e): Test for expected diagnostics with invalid formats. * NEWS: Mention this change. * TODO: Remove this item. [jm: src/seq.c: make diagnostics more consistent tests/misc/seq (fmt-eos1): adjust the expected diagnostic ]
Diffstat (limited to 'tests')
-rwxr-xr-xtests/misc/seq6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/misc/seq b/tests/misc/seq
index 1a153a310..f48289bdf 100755
--- a/tests/misc/seq
+++ b/tests/misc/seq
@@ -87,10 +87,14 @@ my @Tests =
# "seq: memory exhausted". In coreutils-6.0..6.8, it would mistakenly
# succeed and print a blank line.
['fmt-eos1', qw(-f % 1), {EXIT => 1},
- {ERR => "seq: invalid format string: `%'\n" . $try_help }],
+ {ERR => "seq: no % directive in format string `%'\n" . $try_help }],
['fmt-eos2', qw(-f %g% 1), {EXIT => 1},
{ERR => "seq: invalid format string: `%g%'\n" . $try_help }],
+ ['fmt-d', qw(-f "" 1), {EXIT => 1},
+ {ERR => "seq: no % directive in format string `'\n" . $try_help }],
+ ['fmt-e', qw(-f %g%g 1), {EXIT => 1},
+ {ERR => "seq: too many % directives in format string `%g%g'\n"}],
);
# Append a newline to each entry in the OUT array.