The printf builtin "%(fmt)T" specifier (which allows time values
to use strftime-like formatting) is introduced in bash 4.2.
Added a new function `secs_to_rfc2822date` which uses the above specifier
with post 4.1 bash and perl(1) construct with pre-4.2 bash.
---
test/test-lib.sh | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh
index 2fcaba6..7d88867 100644
--- a/test/test-lib.sh
+++ b/test/test-lib.sh
@@ -272,6 +272,21 @@ remove_cr () {
tr '\015' Q | sed -e 's/Q$//'
}
+# The printf '%(fmt)T' specifier is bash 4.2+ feature.
+if [[ ${BASH_VERSINFO[0]} -gt 4 || ${BASH_VERSINFO[1]} -ge 2 ]]
+then
+ secs_to_rfc2822date ()
+ {
+ TZ=UTC printf "%(%a, %d %b %Y %T %z)T\n" "$1"
+ }
+else
+ secs_to_rfc2822date ()
+ {
+ perl -le 'use POSIX "strftime"; @time = gmtime $ARGV[0];
+ print strftime "%a, %d %b %Y %T +0000", @time' "$1"
+ }
+fi
+
# Generate a new message in the mail directory, with a unique message
# ID and subject. The message is not added to the index.
#
@@ -373,8 +388,8 @@ generate_message ()
# we use decreasing timestamps here for historical reasons;
# the existing test suite when we converted to unique timestamps just
# happened to have signicantly fewer failures with that choice.
- template[date]=$(TZ=UTC printf "%(%a, %d %b %Y %T %z)T\n" \
- $((978709437 - gen_msg_cnt)))
+
+ template[date]=$(secs_to_rfc2822date $((978709437 - gen_msg_cnt)))
fi
additional_headers=""
--
1.8.0