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From: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] check-non-portable-shell: echo -e is not portable
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:48:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201304252048.04553.tboegi@web.de> (raw)

Depending on the implementation, the echo command may
support options like -n -e -E or no options at all.

The only portable usage of echo is without any options,
which means that no parameter may start with a hyphen.

check-non-portable-shell.pl checks if echo -n is used.
Improve it to reject any parameter starting with a hyphen
and recommend the usage of printf instead

Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
---
 t/check-non-portable-shell.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl b/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
index 8b5a71d..ff87611 100755
--- a/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
+++ b/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ sub err {
 while (<>) {
 	chomp;
 	/^\s*sed\s+-i/ and err 'sed -i is not portable';
-	/^\s*echo\s+-n/ and err 'echo -n is not portable (please use printf)';
+	/^\s*echo\s+-(\S)\s+/ and err "echo -$1 is not portable (please use printf)";
 	/^\s*declare\s+/ and err 'arrays/declare not portable';
 	/^\s*[^#]\s*which\s/ and err 'which is not portable (please use type)';
 	/test\s+[^=]*==/ and err '"test a == b" is not portable (please use =)';
-- 
1.8.2.1.614.g66d7af5

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