Re: [PATCH] selftests: make shell scripts POSIX-compliant

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On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 05:32:25PM +0530, Aditya Dutt wrote:
> Changes include:
> - Replaced [[ ... ]] with [ ... ]
> - Replaced == with =
> - Replaced printf -v with cur=$(printf ...).
> - Replaced echo -e with printf "%b\n" ...
> 
> The above mentioned are Bash/GNU extensions and are not part of POSIX.
> Using shells like dash or non-GNU coreutils may produce errors.
> They have been replaced with POSIX-compatible alternatives.

Maybe just update them to use /bin/bash instead? There haven't been a lot of
reports of actual breakges and a lot of existing tests are using /bin/bash
already.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun




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