Re: t0050-filesystem.sh unicode tests borked on dash shell

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 21, 2010, 20:43 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8vzi97rv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D1105B5.5070703@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>

Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> writes:

>     $ ls trash\ directory.t0050-filesystem/unicode/
>     \x61\xcc\x88

The built-in printf in dash seems to lack understanding of '\xXX'. It is tempting to patch it by using /usr/bin/printf but it is unclear how portable it would be.

 t/t0050-filesystem.sh |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t0050-filesystem.sh b/t/t0050-filesystem.sh
index 41df6bc..8ad102b 100755
--- a/t/t0050-filesystem.sh
+++ b/t/t0050-filesystem.sh
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ test_description='Various filesystem issues'
 
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
-auml=`printf '\xc3\xa4'`
-aumlcdiar=`printf '\x61\xcc\x88'`
+auml=$(/usr/bin/printf '\xc3\xa4')
+aumlcdiar=$(/usr/bin/printf '\x61\xcc\x88')
 
 case_insensitive=
 unibad=