tests: add write_script helper function

Many of the scripts in the test suite write small helper shell scripts to disk. It's best if these shell scripts start with "#!$SHELL_PATH" rather than "#!/bin/sh", because /bin/sh on some platforms is too buggy to be used. However, it can be cumbersome to expand $SHELL_PATH, because the usual recipe for writing a script is: cat >foo.sh <<-\EOF #!/bin/sh echo my arguments are "$@" EOF To expand $SHELL_PATH, you have to either interpolate the here-doc (which would require quoting "\$@"), or split the creation into two commands (interpolating the $SHELL_PATH line, but not the rest of the script). Let's provide a helper function that makes that less syntactically painful. While we're at it, this helper can also take care of the "chmod +x" that typically comes after the creation of such a script, saving the caller a line. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Feb 4, 2012 at 01:29 UTC 840c519d7e7ae4651a7b5a0954f7aa53eebc29b6
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t/test-lib.sh
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@@ -381,11 +381,20 @@ test_config () {
381 git config "$@"
382 }
383
384 +
385 test_config_global () {
386 test_when_finished "test_unconfig --global '$1'" &&
387 git config --global "$@"
388 }
389
390 +write_script () {
391 + {
392 + echo "#!${2-"$SHELL_PATH"}" &&
393 + cat
394 + } >"$1" &&
395 + chmod +x "$1"
396 +}
397 +
398 # Use test_set_prereq to tell that a particular prerequisite is available.
399 # The prerequisite can later be checked for in two ways:
400 #