tests/ls/abmon-align.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Ensure ls output is aligned when using abbreviated months from the locale

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. "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
print_ver_ ls

mid_month="$(date +%Y-%m-15)" || framework_failure_
for mon in $(seq -w 12); do
    touch -d"$mid_month +$mon month" $mon.ts || framework_failure_
done


# Note some of the following locales may be missing but if so
# we should fail back to the C locale which should be aligned

for format in "%b" "[%b" "%b]" "[%b]"; do
  for LOC in C gv_GB ga_IE fi_FI.utf8 zh_CN ar_SY $LOCALE_FR_UTF8; do
    # The sed usage here is slightly different from the original,
    # removing the \(.*\), to avoid triggering misbehavior in at least
    # GNU sed 4.2 (possibly miscompiled) on Mac OS X (Darwin 9.8.0).
    months="$(
      LC_ALL=$LOC TIME_STYLE=+"$format" ls -lgG *.ts |
      LC_ALL=C sed 's/.\{15\}//;s/ ..\.ts$//;s/ /./g')"
    n_widths=$(echo "$months" |
      while read mon; do echo "$mon" | LC_ALL=$LOC wc -L; done |
      uniq | wc -l
    )
    n_dupes=$(echo "$months" | sort | uniq -d | wc -l)
    test "$n_widths" = "1" || { fail=1; break 2; }
    test "$n_dupes" = "0" || { fail=1; break 2; }
  done
done
if test "$fail" = "1"; then
   echo "misalignment or ambiguous output in $LOC locale:"
   LC_ALL=$LOC TIME_STYLE=+%b ls -lgG *.ts
fi

Exit $fail