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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Cc: Uwe Storbeck <uwe@ibr•ch>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh: use printf instead of echo
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:26:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq61nceidp.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140315001855.GK15625@google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:18:55 -0700")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com> writes:

> Uwe Storbeck wrote:
>
>> Backslash sequences are interpreted as control characters
>> by the echo command of some shells (e.g. dash).
>
> This has bothered me for a while but never enough to do anything about
> it.  Thanks for fixing it.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Uwe Storbeck <uwe@ibr•ch>
>
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
>
> (patch left unsnipped for reference)
>> ---
>>  t/test-lib.sh | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
>> index 1531c24..8209204 100644
>> --- a/t/test-lib.sh
>> +++ b/t/test-lib.sh
>> @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ error "Test script did not set test_description."
>>  
>>  if test "$help" = "t"
>>  then
>> -	echo "$test_description"
>> +	printf '%s\n' "$test_description"
>>  	exit 0
>>  fi
>>  
>> @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ test_failure_ () {
>>  	test_failure=$(($test_failure + 1))
>>  	say_color error "not ok $test_count - $1"
>>  	shift
>> -	echo "$@" | sed -e 's/^/#	/'
>> +	printf '%s\n' "$@" | sed -e 's/^/#	/'

This is wrong, isn't it?  Why do we want one line per item here?

>>  	test "$immediate" = "" || { GIT_EXIT_OK=t; exit 1; }
>>  }
>>  

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-17 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-14 23:57 [PATCH] test-lib.sh: use printf instead of echo Uwe Storbeck
2014-03-15  0:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-03-17 19:26   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-03-18 22:18     ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-03-19 17:17       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-19 17:22         ` David Kastrup
2014-03-19 19:24           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-20  0:17         ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-03-20 16:42           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-15  8:59 ` Johannes Sixt
2014-03-17 18:38   ` Uwe Storbeck
2014-03-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v2] " Uwe Storbeck
2014-03-18  0:14 ` [PATCH v3] test-lib.sh: do not "echo" externally supplied strings Uwe Storbeck
2014-03-18 18:47   ` Junio C Hamano

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