maint: avoid nit-picky syntax-check test failure; tweak big-hole test

* NEWS: Restore deleted newline in "old" NEWS, to fix a syntax-check
test failure.
* tests/big-hole: Use awk, rather than a shell loop: saves 3000 lines
of verbose shell output in the .log file.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f515e845..69262765 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ GNU grep NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   Bootstrapping with Makefile.boot has been broken since grep 2.6,
   and was removed.
 
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.12 (2012-04-23) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ GNU grep NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   use -R if you prefer the old behavior of following all symlinks and
   defaulting to reading all devices.
 
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.11 (2012-03-02) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
diff --git a/tests/big-hole b/tests/big-hole
index 47e36e1f..20ade973 100755
--- a/tests/big-hole
+++ b/tests/big-hole
@@ -13,16 +13,8 @@ fi
 
 # Create a file that starts with at least a buffer's worth of text,
 # but has a big hole later.
-ten='1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10'
-x='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
-(for i in $ten; do
-   for j in $ten; do
-     for k in $ten; do
-       echo $x
-     done
-   done
- done
- echo x | dd bs=1024k seek=8000000
+(${AWK-awk} 'BEGIN{ for (i=0;i<1000;i++) printf "%080d\n", 0 }' < /dev/null
+  echo x | dd bs=1024k seek=8000000
 ) >8T-or-so || skip_ 'cannot create big sparse file'
 
 grep --binary-file=without-match x 8T-or-so >/dev/null