test for bug fixed in coreutils-4.5.2

diff --git a/tests/od/x8 b/tests/od/x8
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..b1079b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/od/x8
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# verify that od -t x8 works properly
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+  set -x
+  od --version
+fi
+
+pwd=`pwd`
+t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$
+trap 'status=$?; cd $pwd; chmod -R u+rwx $t0; rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0
+trap '(exit $?); exit $?' 1 2 13 15
+
+framework_failure=0
+mkdir -p $tmp || framework_failure=1
+cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
+echo abcdefgh |tr -d '\n' > in || framework_failure=1
+
+if test $framework_failure = 1; then
+  echo '$0: failure in testing framework' 1>&2
+  (exit 1); exit 1
+fi
+
+fail=0
+
+od -An -t x8 in > out-raw || fail=1
+sed 's/^ //;s/\(..\)/\1 /g;s/ $//' out-raw \
+  | tr ' ' '\n' \
+  | sort -n \
+  > out
+
+od -An -t x1 in \
+  | sed 's/^ //' \
+  | tr ' ' '\n' \
+  | sort -n \
+  > exp
+
+cmp out exp || fail=1
+test $fail = 1 && diff out exp 2> /dev/null
+
+(exit $fail); exit $fail