From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:17:56 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: tests: fix false failure with dash
X-Git-Tag: v9.11~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=15211db43f587c5fd05616b53a8e517fd4b3877d;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

tests: fix false failure with dash

* tests/date/date-locale-hour.sh: Just strip the char before the last x,
assuming it's going to be the newline output by `locale`.
dash doesn't support $'' within ${}.
---

diff --git a/tests/date/date-locale-hour.sh b/tests/date/date-locale-hour.sh
index a368fb77d7..749123d853 100755
--- a/tests/date/date-locale-hour.sh
+++ b/tests/date/date-locale-hour.sh
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ done
 # and that it uses it by default when no format string is given.
 for loc in $(locale -a | shuf -n 10); do
   fmt="$(LC_ALL=$loc locale date_fmt; printf x)"
-  fmt=${fmt%$'\n'x}  # Retain fmt newlines (seen with Serbian on Centos 7)
+  fmt=${fmt%?x}  # Retain fmt newlines (seen with Serbian on Centos 7)
   if test -n "$fmt"; then
     LC_ALL=$loc date -d '2025-10-11T13:00' +"$fmt" > $loc.exp || fail=1
     LC_ALL=$loc date -d '2025-10-11T13:00' > $loc.out || fail=1