Use /bin/echo for console output with options like non newline (-n) and/or backslash escape (-e). Tom Zanussi reported that when he tested ftracetest, it shows "-e" and "-n" options on the console, since a system which uses dash as the alias of /bin/sh, uses dash built-in echo command which doesn't accept "-e". To avoid this issue, use /bin/echo instead of echo for the output with options. Fixes: 8f381ac4d321 ("selftests/ftrace: Add color to the PASS / FAIL results") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1542221862.git.tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest index 75244db70331..ba670b452bdb 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest @@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ strip_esc() { } prlog() { # messages - echo -e "$@" - [ "$LOG_FILE" ] && echo -e "$@" | strip_esc >> $LOG_FILE + /bin/echo -e "$@" + [ "$LOG_FILE" ] && /bin/echo -e "$@" | strip_esc >> $LOG_FILE } catlog() { #file cat $1