[Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] scripts/hxtool: fix undefined behavour of echo

[Michael Tokarev]

From: Daniel Shahaf <address@hidden>

Avoid undefined behaviour of echo(1) with backslashes in arguments
The behaviour is implementation-defined, different /bin/sh's behave
differently.

Signed-off-By: Michael Tokarev <address@hidden>
---
Submitting this patch upstream, thank you very much!
Daniel, can you please add your Signed-off-By line?

 scripts/hxtool | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/hxtool b/scripts/hxtool
index 995bb7f..04f7d7b 100644
--- a/scripts/hxtool
+++ b/scripts/hxtool
@@ -26,32 +26,32 @@ hxtotexi()
             ;;
             STEXI*)
             if test $flag -eq 1 ; then
-                echo "line $line: syntax error: expected ETEXI, found $str" >&2
+                printf "line %d: syntax error: expected ETEXI, found '%s'\n" 
"$line" "$str" >&2
                 exit 1
             fi
             flag=1
             ;;
             ETEXI*)
             if test $flag -ne 1 ; then
-                echo "line $line: syntax error: expected STEXI, found $str" >&2
+                printf "line %d: syntax error: expected STEXI, found '%s'\n" 
"$line" "$str" >&2
                 exit 1
             fi
             flag=0
             ;;
             SQMP*|EQMP*)
             if test $flag -eq 1 ; then
-                echo "line $line: syntax error: expected ETEXI, found $str" >&2
+                printf "line %d: syntax error: expected ETEXI, found '%s'\n" 
"$line" "$str" >&2
                 exit 1
             fi
             ;;
             DEFHEADING*)
-            echo "$(expr "$str" : "DEFHEADING(\(.*\))")"
+            printf '%s\n' "$(expr "$str" : "DEFHEADING(\(.*\))")"
             ;;
             ARCHHEADING*)
-            echo "$(expr "$str" : "ARCHHEADING(\(.*\),.*)")"
+            printf '%s\n' "$(expr "$str" : "ARCHHEADING(\(.*\),.*)")"
             ;;
             *)
-            test $flag -eq 1 && echo "$str"
+            test $flag -eq 1 && printf '%s\n' "$str"
             ;;
         esac
         line=$((line+1))
@@ -69,26 +69,26 @@ hxtoqmp()
             ;;
             SQMP*)
             if test $flag -eq 1 ; then
-                echo "line $line: syntax error: expected EQMP, found $str" >&2
+                printf "line %d: syntax error: expected EQMP, found '%s'\n" 
"$line" "$str" >&2
                 exit 1
             fi
             flag=1
             ;;
             EQMP*)
             if test $flag -ne 1 ; then
-                echo "line $line: syntax error: expected SQMP, found $str" >&2
+                printf "line %d: syntax error: expected SQMP, found '%s'\n" 
"$line" "$str" >&2
                 exit 1
             fi
             flag=0
             ;;
             STEXI*|ETEXI*)
             if test $flag -eq 1 ; then
-                echo "line $line: syntax error: expected EQMP, found $str" >&2
+                printf "line %d: syntax error: expected EQMP, found '%s'\n" 
"$line" "$str" >&2
                 exit 1
             fi
             ;;
             *)
-            test $flag -eq 1 && echo "$str"
+            test $flag -eq 1 && printf '%s\n' "$str"
             ;;
         esac
         line=$((line+1))
-- 
2.1.4