From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:43:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * tests/misc/cat-proc: Try to avoid any spurious numeric
X-Git-Tag: COREUTILS-6_0~275
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=df96ded8aea73b5134d800865534548b46f79283;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fcoreutils.git

* tests/misc/cat-proc: Try to avoid any spurious numeric
differences in frequently-changing /proc/cpuinfo.
Reported by Nelson Beebe.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 22f2f58..da7620b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-06-27  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
+	* tests/misc/cat-proc: Try to avoid any spurious numeric
+	differences in frequently-changing /proc/cpuinfo.
+	Reported by Nelson Beebe.
+
 2006-06-26  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
 	Attempt rmdir (actually, unlinkat-with-AT_REMOVEDIR) upon any
diff --git a/tests/misc/cat-proc b/tests/misc/cat-proc
index 69e2065..b53864e 100755
--- a/tests/misc/cat-proc
+++ b/tests/misc/cat-proc
@@ -32,9 +32,10 @@ fail=0
 
 # Yes, parts of /proc/cpuinfo might change between cat runs.
 # If that happens, consider choosing a file that's less likely to change,
-# or just filter out the changing lines.
-cat -E $f | tr -d '$' > out || fail=1
-cat    $f | tr -d '$' > exp || fail=1
+# or just filter out the changing lines.  The sed filter should help
+# to avoid any spurious numeric differences.
+cat -E $f | sed 's/[0-9][0-9]*/D/g' | tr -d '$' > out || fail=1
+cat    $f | sed 's/[0-9][0-9]*/D/g' | tr -d '$' > exp || fail=1
 
 cmp out exp || fail=1
 test $fail = 1 && diff out exp 2> /dev/null