[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] fate: disable globbing when calling shell functions.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 11:41:51PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Some of the filters tests use globbing characters, especially
> brackets for filter pad labels. While most of these strings
> are way too complicated to ever match an existing file name
> and are therefore kept unchanged in the command line (an old
> misfeature of the shell language that happens to be convenient
> here), at least one use is simple enough to match random files
> lying in the current directory. If that happens, the string,
> that was meant to be kept verbatim, is replaced by the file
> name, and that causes the test to fail (or worse).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas George <nicolas.george at normalesup.org>
> ---
>  tests/fate-run.sh |    4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/fate-run.sh b/tests/fate-run.sh
> index 9cd872b..0520d62 100755
> --- a/tests/fate-run.sh
> +++ b/tests/fate-run.sh
> @@ -166,6 +166,10 @@ lavfitest(){
>  
>  mkdir -p "$outdir"
>  
> +# Disable globbing: command arguments may contain globbing characters and
> +# must be kept verbatim
> +set -f

should be ok

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