Re: Proposition: move some of the tests from misc/ to specific directories

[Pádraig Brady]

On 14/06/2023 21:37, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to get the opinion of this list on some tests paths changes.
>
> Currently, many tests are located in the misc/ directory. For about 39
> of the binaries, there are more than one test.
> I propose that for these binaries, we should move these tests into their
> own specific directories.
>
> For example, tests/misc/tty-eof.pl and tests/misc/tty.sh into tests/tty/
>
> This change would help us more easily identify which tests need to be
> run for each program.
>
> I have already prepared the patches needed for this change. As an
> example, I've attached the first one in the stack.

I think this is better in the long run.
Over time we've been moving from larger perl scripts
to individual shell scripts for tests, as the latter
are more representative of how the coreutils are usually used.

If you send the patches to me, I'll squash and merge.

caveats to note are that some scripts do test multiple utils.
You can key off print_ver_ to identify utils being tested,
which shows the current distribution like:

$ git grep -h  '^print_ver_ .*' | sort | cut -d ' ' -f2- | uniq -c | sort -n
      1 arch
      1 chcon cp ls mv stat
      1 chgrp chmod chown
      1 chroot
      1 chroot pwd
      1 cksum date od
      1 cksum printf
      1 cksum shuf
      1 coreutils
      1 cp dd
      1 cp mv ginstall
      1 cp mv ln
      1 cut
      1 dd printf
      1 df printf
      1 du wc
      1 echo
      1 env
      1 env printenv
      1 env pwd nice
      1 env seq test timeout printf
      1 factor
      1 factor seq sha1sum
      1 false true
      1 FIXME
      1 fmt printf
      1 kill
      1 ls printf
      1 ls test
      1 ls touch
      1 mkdir mknod mkfifo
      1 mknod
      1 nice
      1 nice env
      1 nl
      1 nohup
      1 pathchk
      1 pr
      1 printenv
      1 ptx
      1 realpath
      1 rm du chmod
      1 sleep printf
      1 sort printf
      1 stdbuf env
      1 sum
      1 sync
      1 tail test head
      1 tee
      1 test stat
      1 timeout env
      1 tr
      1 tty
      1 uniq
      1 uniq printf
      1 wc printf
      2 chcon
      2 cksum
      2 fmt
      2 md5sum
      2 pwd
      2 runcon
      2 shuf
      2 tac
      2 touch test
      2 yes
      3 date
      3 groups
      3 head
      3 mkdir mkfifo mknod
      3 nproc
      3 readlink
      3 tail sleep
      3 timeout
      4 cat
      4 chown
      4 csplit
      4 readlink pwd
      4 rmdir
      4 shred
      4 stty
      4 wc
      6 chgrp
      6 od
      6 printf
      6 seq
      6 stat
      7 cp mv
      7 id
      8 ln
      9 ginstall
      9 truncate
     11 chmod
     11 df
     12 mkdir
     13 split
     13 touch
     15 dd
     20 sort
     28 tail
     29 du
     35 mv
     46 ls
     47 rm
     61 cp

cheers,
Pádraig