Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH] tests: Avoid non-portable 'echo -ARG'

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 09:21:37AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> POSIX says that backslashes in the arguments to 'echo', as well as
> any use of 'echo -n' and 'echo -e', are non-portable; it recommends
> people should favor 'printf' instead.  This is definitely true where
> we do not control which shell is running (such as in makefile snippets
> or in documentation examples).  But even for scripts where we
> require bash (and therefore, where echo does what we want by default),
> it is still possible to use 'shopt -s xpg_echo' to change bash's
> behavior of echo.  And setting a good example never hurts when we are
> not sure if a snippet will be copied from a bash-only script to a
> general shell script (although I don't change the use of non-portable
> \e for ESC when we know the running shell is bash).
> 
> Replace 'echo -n "..."' with 'printf "..."', and 'echo -e "..."'
> with 'printf "...\n"'.
> 
> In the qemu-iotests check script, also fix unusual shell quoting
> that would result in word-splitting if 'date' outputs a space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> ---
> 
> Of course, Stefan's pending patch:
> [PATCH 3/5] qemu-iotests: 068: extract _qemu() function
> also touches 068, so there may be some (obvious) merge conflicts
> to resolve there depending on what goes in first.
> 
>  qemu-options.hx             |  4 ++--
>  tests/multiboot/run_test.sh | 10 +++++-----
>  tests/qemu-iotests/051      |  7 ++++---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/068      |  2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/142      | 48 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  tests/qemu-iotests/171      | 14 ++++++-------
>  tests/qemu-iotests/check    | 18 ++++++++---------
>  tests/rocker/all            | 10 +++++-----
>  tests/tcg/cris/Makefile     |  8 ++++----
>  9 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>

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