t: adapt `test_copy_bytes()` to not use Perl

The `test_copy_bytes()` helper function copies up to N bytes from stdin to stdout. This is implemented using Perl, but it can be trivially adapted to instead use dd(1). Refactor the helper accordingly, which allows a bunch of tests to pass when Perl is not available. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Patrick Steinhardt committed Apr 3, 2025 at 07:05 UTC 01486b5de886af06c5bbfb097736ec97b86bacda
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t/test-lib-functions.sh
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@@ -1640,17 +1640,7 @@ test_match_signal () {
1640
1641 # Read up to "$1" bytes (or to EOF) from stdin and write them to stdout.
1642 test_copy_bytes () {
1643 - perl -e '
1644 - my $len = $ARGV[1];
1645 - while ($len > 0) {
1646 - my $s;
1647 - my $nread = sysread(STDIN, $s, $len);
1648 - die "cannot read: $!" unless defined($nread);
1649 - last unless $nread;
1650 - print $s;
1651 - $len -= $nread;
1652 - }
1653 - ' - "$1"
1643 + dd ibs=1 count="$1" 2>/dev/null
1644 }
1645
1646 # run "$@" inside a non-git directory