On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 01:13:45PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:07:12PM +0100, David Sterba wrote: > > --- a/check > > +++ b/check > > @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ showme=false > > have_test_arg=false > > randomize=false > > here=`pwd` > > -FSTYP=xfs > > +FSTYP=${FSTYP:-xfs} > > ":-xfs" means assign the value of $xfs if $FTYPE is null. xfs is not > a variable.... Docs say that ${parameter:-word} If parameter is unset or null, the expansion of word is substituted. Otherwise, the value of parameter is substituted. so 'xfs' will expand to itself. And I did test this one with: $ cat default.sh << EOF FSTYP=${FSTYP:-xfs} echo $FSTYP EOF $ cat external.sh << EOF FSTYP=btrfs source default.sh EOF $ sh default.sh xfs $ sh external.sh btrfs > > -# Autodetect fs type based on what's on $TEST_DEV > > -if [ "$HOSTOS" == "Linux" ]; then > > +# Autodetect fs type based on what's on $TEST_DEV unless it's been set > > +# externally > > +if [ -z "$FSTYP" -a "$HOSTOS" == "Linux" ]; then > > If the default value expansion is fixed, FSTYP will always have a > value here Hence it will never, ever probe. > > FSTYP=`blkid -c /dev/null -s TYPE -o value $TEST_DEV` > > fi > > export FSTYP > > I suspect what you want is: > > -FSTYP=xfs > > ..... > > if [ -z "$FSTYP" -a "$HOSTOS" == "Linux" ]; then > FSTYP=`blkid -c /dev/null -s TYPE -o value $TEST_DEV` > fi > FSTYP=${FSTYP:=xfs} > export FSTYP Right, the default assignment has to be last. I'll use the := form to be consistent with what's used in the file, though :- works here as well, just does not assign the variable within the ${...} expression. The result is the same. thanks, david _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs