Štěpán Němec <stepnem@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes, actually, AFAICT just $(cd . && pwd) fixes things (and saves a few > syscalls), and I agree this is a much better approach than my naive fix. Actually I was still being silly. We sometimes do val=$(cd there && do something there) so that we can get the output from a command in a different directory _without_ having to move our current directory. But the point of this current topic is that we _need_ to convince the shell that the path to our current directory is a canonical one without trailing slash, so my silly 'cd "$(pwd)/."' (or your "cd .") should be done outside the command expansion, or the canonicalized $PWD will only appear inside the $() and the next reference to $(pwd) or $PWD in the test script will still give the path with the trailing slash, that is textually different from $TEST_DIRECTORY. I wonder if this works better for you. We would be sure that $PWD and $TEST_DIRECTORY (when the latter is not imported from the environment) are the same, so "your cwd that does not end with /t and has a trailing slash after it" would be gone. Any $PWD or $(pwd) the tests refer to later in the step will also lack the unwanted trailing slash. As long as "cd ." is sufficient to cause the shell reexamine and canonicalize the $PWD, that is. Thanks. t/test-lib.sh | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git c/t/test-lib.sh w/t/test-lib.sh index 1656c9eed0..a7045e028c 100644 --- c/t/test-lib.sh +++ w/t/test-lib.sh @@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ # t/ subdirectory and are run in 'trash directory' subdirectory. if test -z "$TEST_DIRECTORY" then + # It is reported that some shells spawned in tricky ways can + # give $PWD with a trailing slash. An explicit chdir hopefully + # would wake them out of their hallucination. + cd . + # ensure that TEST_DIRECTORY is an absolute path so that it # is valid even if the current working directory is changed TEST_DIRECTORY=$(pwd) @@ -626,7 +631,6 @@ fi # Protect ourselves from common misconfiguration to export # CDPATH into the environment unset CDPATH - unset GREP_OPTIONS unset UNZIP
