zopencommunity / zopencommunity/bashport
heredoc test fails with comparison
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- Dominant language
- Groovy
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- 12
- Forks
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Description
The test can be reduced to:
cd ~/zopen/dev/bashport/bash-5.2/tests
catfile()
{
cat <<- EOF > $FILENAME
$(cat $1)
EOF
cmp $FILENAME $1
# rm -f $FILENAME
}
catfle ../y.tab.c
This fails.
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Research direction
Start in the tests directory with the reduced heredoc case from the issue and reproduce the failure using ../y.tab.c. Compare the generated file with the source using cmp, then identify the heredoc behavior causing the mismatch and add or update a regression test showing the expected comparison result.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- bash
- Domain
- operating-systems, testing-qa
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100