Re: [PATCH] sefltests/ftrace: Use /bin/echo for output with options

Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29T16:32:45Z

On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:07:43 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:

> Use /bin/echo for console output with options like non
> newline (-n) and/or backslash escape (-e).
>
> Tom Zanussi reported that when he tested ftracetest, it
> shows "-e" and "-n" options on the console, since a system
> which uses dash as the alias of /bin/sh, uses dash built-in
> echo command which doesn't accept "-e".
>
> To avoid this issue, use /bin/echo instead of echo for
> the output with options.
>
> Fixes: 8f381ac4d321 ("selftests/ftrace: Add color to the PASS / FAIL results")
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1542221862.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
> Reported-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
> Suggested-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
> index 75244db70331..ba670b452bdb 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
> @@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ strip_esc() {
> }
>
> prlog() { # messages
> - echo -e "$@"
> - [ "$LOG_FILE" ] && echo -e "$@" | strip_esc >> $LOG_FILE
> + /bin/echo -e "$@"
> + [ "$LOG_FILE" ] && /bin/echo -e "$@" | strip_esc >> $LOG_FILE
> }
> catlog() { #file
> cat $1

I'm fine with this change but I wonder if we should have a $ECHO that
is defined to something that can be overwritten if need be.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

-- Steve