On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 07:19:01PM +0100, David Sterba wrote: > 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 Funny, I did the same tests to check and kept getting no output instead of the "xfs" result. Changing it to := made it work just fine. Oh well... :/ > > > -# 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. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs