[PATCH] tests: use printf, not echo -n, echo -e, or any combination

[Jim Meyering]

I ran "make check SHELL=/bin/dash" and saw that
the fedora test would fail.  This fixes it:

>From de88933b28523882e38ca5332791cb55d85ce9ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:38:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: use printf, not echo -n, echo -e, or any combination

* tests/fedora: Using printf is more portable.
---
 tests/fedora |   28 ++++++++++++++--------------
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/fedora b/tests/fedora
index a162930..20c0dc1 100644
--- a/tests/fedora
+++ b/tests/fedora
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ ok () { echo -e "${G}OK${D}"; }
 fail () { echo -e "${R}FAIL${D} (See ${U})"; failures=1; }

 U=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=116909
-echo -n "fgrep false negatives: "
+printf "fgrep false negatives: "
 cat > 116909.list <<EOF
 a
 b
@@ -37,41 +37,41 @@ EOF
 grep -F -w -f 116909.list 116909.in | diff - 116909.out && ok || fail

 U=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=123362
-echo -n "bad handling of brackets in UTF-8: "
+printf 'bad handling of brackets in UTF-8: '
 echo Y > 123362.out
 echo Y | LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 grep -i '[y,Y]' | diff - 123362.out && ok || fail

 U=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112869
-echo -n "crash with \W: "
+printf 'crash with \\W: '
 echo '<form>' > 112869.out
 LANG=it_IT grep -iE '\Wform\W' 112869.out | diff - 112869.out && ok || fail

 if ( timeout --version ) > /dev/null 2>&1; then

   U=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189580
-  echo -n "grep -D skip opening a special file: "
+  printf 'grep -D skip opening a special file: '
   timeout 10 grep -D skip foo /dev/zero
   test $? = 124 && fail || ok

   U=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=169524
-  echo -n "grep -Fw looping infinitely: "
+  printf 'grep -Fw looping infinitely: '
   echo foobar | timeout 10 grep -Fw ""
   test $? = 124 && fail || ok

   U=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=140781
-  echo -n "fgrep hangs on binary files: "
+  printf 'fgrep hangs on binary files: '
   timeout 10 grep -F grep "$abs_top_builddir/src/grep" >/dev/null
   test $? = 124 && fail || ok

 fi

 U=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=161700
-echo -n "grep -Fw fails to match anything: "
+printf 'grep -Fw fails to match anything: '
 echo test > 161700.out
 grep -Fw test 161700.out | diff - 161700.out && ok || fail

 U=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=179698
-echo -n "grep -w broken in non-utf8 multibyte locales: "
+printf 'grep -w broken in non-utf8 multibyte locales: '
 echo za a > 179698.out
 LANG=ja_JP.eucjp grep -w a 179698.out | diff - 179698.out && ok || fail

@@ -79,22 +79,22 @@ LANG=ja_JP.eucjp grep -w a 179698.out | diff - 179698.out 
&& ok || fail
 echo a |grep -P a >/dev/null || Exit $failures

 U=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=171379
-echo -n "grep -P crashes on whitespace lines: "
+printf 'grep -P crashes on whitespace lines: '
 echo '   ' > 171379.out
 grep -P '^\s+$' 171379.out | diff - 171379.out && ok || fail

 U=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204255
-echo -n "-e '' does not work if not a first parameter: "
+printf '%s' "-e '' does not work if not a first parameter: "
 echo test | grep -e 'HighlightThis' -e '' > 204255.first
 echo test | grep -e '' -e 'HighlightThis' > 204255.second
 diff 204255.first 204255.second && ok || fail

 U=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=324781
-echo -n "bad handling of line breaks with grep -P #1: "
-echo -ne "a\na" | grep -P '[^a]' >/dev/null && fail || ok
+printf 'bad handling of line breaks with grep -P #1: '
+printf 'a\na' | grep -P '[^a]' >/dev/null && fail || ok

 # This is mostly a check that fix for above doesn't break -P further
-echo -n "bad handling of line breaks with grep -P #2: "
-echo -ne "a\na" | grep -P '[^b].[^b]' >/dev/null && fail || ok
+printf '%s' "bad handling of line breaks with grep -P #2: "
+printf 'a\na' | grep -P '[^b].[^b]' >/dev/null && fail || ok

 Exit $failures
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