Fix file formatting script dependencies and cleanup

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/misc/scripts/file_format.sh b/misc/scripts/file_format.sh
index a2f33692f9..3ff5798e22 100755
--- a/misc/scripts/file_format.sh
+++ b/misc/scripts/file_format.sh
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 # This is supplementary to clang_format.sh and black_format.sh, but should be
 # run before them.
 
-# We need dos2unix and recode.
-if [ ! -x "$(command -v dos2unix)" -o ! -x "$(command -v recode)" ]; then
-    printf "Install 'dos2unix' and 'recode' to use this script.\n"
+# We need dos2unix and isutf8.
+if [ ! -x "$(command -v dos2unix)" -o ! -x "$(command -v isutf8)" ]; then
+    printf "Install 'dos2unix' and 'isutf8' (moreutils package) to use this script.\n"
 fi
 
 set -uo pipefail
@@ -53,22 +53,24 @@ done
 
 diff=$(git diff --color)
 
-# If no UTF-8 violations were collected and no diff has been
-# generated all is OK, clean up, and exit.
 if [ ! -s utf8-validation.txt ] && [ -z "$diff" ] ; then
+    # If no UTF-8 violations were collected (the file is empty) and
+    # no diff has been generated all is OK, clean up, and exit.
     printf "Files in this commit comply with the formatting rules.\n"
-    rm -f utf8-violations.txt
+    rm -f utf8-validation.txt
     exit 0
 fi
 
-# Violations detected, notify the user, clean up, and exit.
 if [ -s utf8-validation.txt ]
 then
+    # If the file has content and is not empty, violations
+    # detected, notify the user, clean up, and exit.
     printf "\n*** The following files contain invalid UTF-8 character sequences:\n\n"
     cat utf8-validation.txt
-    rm -f utf8-validation.txt
 fi
 
+rm -f utf8-validation.txt
+
 if [ ! -z "$diff" ]
 then
     printf "\n*** The following differences were found between the code "