Do not use $GIT_BUILD_DIR without quotes; it may contain spaces and be split into fields. But it is not necessary to access test-tool with an absolute path in the first place as it can be found via path lookup. Remove the explicit path. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> --- Found this today coincidentally when I happened to look at the terminal with test output at the right time and saw a suspicous error message that included just one half of the build directory path. -- Hannes t/t3008-ls-files-lazy-init-name-hash.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/t3008-ls-files-lazy-init-name-hash.sh b/t/t3008-ls-files-lazy-init-name-hash.sh index 64f047332b..85f3704958 100755 --- a/t/t3008-ls-files-lazy-init-name-hash.sh +++ b/t/t3008-ls-files-lazy-init-name-hash.sh @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ test_description='Test the lazy init name hash with various folder structures' . ./test-lib.sh -if test 1 -eq $($GIT_BUILD_DIR/t/helper/test-tool online-cpus) +if test 1 -eq $(test-tool online-cpus) then skip_all='skipping lazy-init tests, single cpu' test_done -- 2.24.1.524.gae569673ff