Hi Patrick, On Thu, 27 Mar 2025, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > A bunch of tests rely on Perl to print data in various different ways. > These usages fall into the following categories: > > - Print data conditionally by matching patterns. These usecases can be > converted to use awk(1) rather easily. > > - Print data repeatedly. These usecases can typically be converted to > use a combination of `test-tool genzeros` and sed(1). It might be even more elegant to teach `genzeros` to generate streams of bytes other than NUL. > - Print data in reverse. These usecases can be converted to use > awk(1). Or, in one case, `sort -r`. These changes all look good to me. Ciao, Johannes
