[Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit v3 4/5] tests: Remove useless precondition that ‘printf’ exists.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jan 22 22:20:50 UTC 2019


It's a bash builtin, it always exists.

Thanks: Eric Blake.
---
 tests/test-partitioning4.sh | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/test-partitioning4.sh b/tests/test-partitioning4.sh
index 4177640..eb76b3c 100755
--- a/tests/test-partitioning4.sh
+++ b/tests/test-partitioning4.sh
@@ -43,15 +43,6 @@ source ./functions.sh
 set -e
 set -x
 
-# Check if the printf utility is available.  This is probably using
-# the bash builtin (not the one from coreutils) which does not
-# understand --flags, so we have to test it using a dummy format
-# string.
-if ! printf ""; then
-    echo "$0: missing or broken printf"
-    exit 77
-fi
-
 # Test that qemu-img works
 if ! qemu-img --help >/dev/null; then
     echo "$0: missing or broken qemu-img"
-- 
2.20.1




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