[libvirt] [PATCH] schematestutils.sh: improve shell portability: avoid "echo -e"

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Wed Apr 14 11:28:54 UTC 2010


echo -e is not portable.
This is the sole remaining use in all of libvirt.

>From a58cf340b5ebbca2157f43c6f23d4d6f56b848c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:25:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] schematestutils.sh: improve shell portability: avoid "echo -e"

* tests/schematestutils.sh: Use printf rather than echo -e.
---
 tests/schematestutils.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/schematestutils.sh b/tests/schematestutils.sh
index f172857..f2b3b50 100644
--- a/tests/schematestutils.sh
+++ b/tests/schematestutils.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ do

     test_result $n $(basename $(dirname $xml))"/"$(basename $xml) $ret
     if test "$verbose" = "1" && test $ret != 0 ; then
-        echo -e "$cmd\n$result"
+        printf '%s\n' "$cmd" "$result"
     fi
     if test "$ret" != 0 ; then
         f=`expr $f + 1`
--
1.7.1.rc1.248.gcefbb




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