We need to check if the file exists, not just if it is a non-empty string. While an empty $path would have the unfortunate effect that "cat" would read from stdin, that is not an issue as you can simply not do that. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/runtime.bash | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/runtime.bash b/scripts/runtime.bash index 294e6b1..3121c1f 100644 --- a/scripts/runtime.bash +++ b/scripts/runtime.bash @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ function run() for check_param in "${check[@]}"; do path=${check_param%%=*} value=${check_param#*=} - if [ "$path" ] && [ "$(cat $path)" != "$value" ]; then + if [ -f "$path" ] && [ "$(cat $path)" != "$value" ]; then print_result "SKIP" $testname "" "$path not equal to $value" return 2 fi -- 2.26.2