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Re: [BUGS] test failure in t4014-format-patch.sh with master

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Apr 17, 2008, 15:44 UTC
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
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> 
> Debian has its own dash which is supposed to be a lightweight
> alternative to bash and "for checking POSIX compliance of scripts"
> (quote from the packages description). I don't happen to know off-hand
> whether POSIX says that echo should default to -e, but dash seems to do
> that:
> 
> $ dash
> $ a="hello\nhi"
> $ echo $a
> hello
> hi

Ahh. So that "echo" should just be replaced with a 'printf "%s\n"' instead?

We have a _lot_ of "echo"s though. I suspect the only ones we'd ever catch are the ones explicitly tested for. I suspect that the dash echo is just broken.

		Linus
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Message 4 of 12 in “[BUGS] test failure in t4014-format-patch.sh with master”
  1. Remi VanicatApr 17, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2008
  3. Björn SteinbrinkApr 17, 2008
  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2008
  5. Björn SteinbrinkApr 17, 2008
  6. Jeff KingApr 17, 2008
  7. Jeff KingApr 17, 2008
  8. Rémi VanicatApr 17, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2008
  11. Rémi VanicatApr 18, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 19, 2008

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