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[RESEND,v2,1/2] selftests/ftrace: Replace echo -e with printf

Message ID 20190222205351.743-2-juergh@canonical.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series [RESEND,v2,1/2] selftests/ftrace: Replace echo -e with printf | expand

Commit Message

Juerg Haefliger Feb. 22, 2019, 8:53 p.m. UTC
echo -e is not POSIX. Depending on what /bin/sh is, we can get
incorrect output like:
$ -e -n [1] Basic trace file check
$ -e 	[PASS]

Fix that by using printf instead.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Shuah Feb. 22, 2019, 10:33 p.m. UTC | #1
On 2/22/19 1:53 PM, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> echo -e is not POSIX. Depending on what /bin/sh is, we can get
> incorrect output like:
> $ -e -n [1] Basic trace file check
> $ -e 	[PASS]
> 
> Fix that by using printf instead.
> 
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
> ---
>   tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest | 9 +++++++--
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
> index fc755e1b50f1..20c9c0ad8682 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
> @@ -173,8 +173,13 @@ strip_esc() {
>   }
>   
>   prlog() { # messages
> -  echo -e "$@"
> -  [ "$LOG_FILE" ] && echo -e "$@" | strip_esc >> $LOG_FILE
> +  newline="\n"
> +  if [ "$1" = "-n" ] ; then
> +    newline=
> +    shift
> +  fi
> +  printf "$*$newline"
> +  [ "$LOG_FILE" ] && printf "$*$newline" | strip_esc >> $LOG_FILE
>   }
>   catlog() { #file
>     cat $1
> 

This patch applied to linux-kselftest next which is at 5.0rc6
I queued this for 5.1-rc1.

thanks,
-- Shuah
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diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
index fc755e1b50f1..20c9c0ad8682 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
@@ -173,8 +173,13 @@  strip_esc() {
 }
 
 prlog() { # messages
-  echo -e "$@"
-  [ "$LOG_FILE" ] && echo -e "$@" | strip_esc >> $LOG_FILE
+  newline="\n"
+  if [ "$1" = "-n" ] ; then
+    newline=
+    shift
+  fi
+  printf "$*$newline"
+  [ "$LOG_FILE" ] && printf "$*$newline" | strip_esc >> $LOG_FILE
 }
 catlog() { #file
   cat $1