Re: [PATCH] Avoid using `echo -n` anywhere

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Lukas Fleischer <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> `echo -n` is non-portable. The POSIX specification says:
>
>     Conforming applications that wish to do prompting without <newline>
>     characters or that could possibly be expecting to echo a -n, should
>     use the printf utility derived from the Ninth Edition system.
>
> Since all of the affected shell scripts use a POSIX shell shebang,
> replace `echo -n` invocations with printf.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ...
> diff --git a/t/perf/perf-lib.sh b/t/perf/perf-lib.sh
> index c61d535..ae44117 100644
> --- a/t/perf/perf-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/perf/perf-lib.sh
> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ test_perf () {
>  		echo "$test_count" >>"$perf_results_dir"/$base.subtests
>  		echo "$1" >"$perf_results_dir"/$base.$test_count.descr
>  		if test -z "$verbose"; then
> -			echo -n "perf $test_count - $1:"
> +			printf "%s" "perf $test_count - $1:"
>  		else
>  			echo "perf $test_count - $1:"
>  		fi
> @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ test_perf () {
>  			if test_run_perf_ "$2"
>  			then
>  				if test -z "$verbose"; then
> -					echo -n " $i"
> +					printf " %d" "$i"

I'd prefer to see '%s' here; it is more faithful transliteration
from "echo -n".

Thanks, will queue with the above tweak.

>  				else
>  					echo "* timing run $i/$GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT:"
>  				fi
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