From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:37:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Use "cat", not "test", to test for
X-Git-Tag: CPPI-1_12~982
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=17d40155b4e5020e5d518a1d30b042a20509acc8;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Use "cat", not "test", to test for
../../src/dd.  Problem reported by Eric Blake.
---

diff --git a/tests/install/basic-1 b/tests/install/basic-1
index c3e16b40be..86450dea5c 100755
--- a/tests/install/basic-1
+++ b/tests/install/basic-1
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ fi
 dir=dir
 file=file
 
-test -r ../../src/dd || {
+# Skip this test if we're on a non-POSIX platform where executable's names end
+# in .exe, or we have some other problem like that.
+cat ../../src/dd > /dev/null || {
   echo >&2 "$0: ../../src/dd is not readable, so can't run this test"
   exit 77
 }