Tests: allow the use of regular expressions to match events

[lttng-tools.git] / tests / utils / utils.sh

diff --git a/tests/utils/utils.sh b/tests/utils/utils.sh
index 3a619201f936d3ec3b9ea6a3f81beabcd9570c55..7704e5246e75d5ff52ed65885118ec18dfd12cbf 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/utils/utils.sh
+++ b/tests/utils/utils.sh
@@ -1496,7 +1496,7 @@ function validate_trace_exp()
        which $BABELTRACE_BIN >/dev/null
        skip $? -ne 0 "Babeltrace binary not found. Skipping trace validation"
 
-       traced=$($BABELTRACE_BIN $trace_path 2>/dev/null | grep ${event_exp} | wc -l)
+       traced=$($BABELTRACE_BIN $trace_path 2>/dev/null | grep --extended-regexp ${event_exp} | wc -l)
        if [ "$traced" -ne 0 ]; then
                pass "Validate trace for expression '${event_exp}', $traced events"
        else
@@ -1515,7 +1515,7 @@ function validate_trace_only_exp()
        which $BABELTRACE_BIN >/dev/null
        skip $? -ne 0 "Babeltrace binary not found. Skipping trace matches"
 
-       local count=$($BABELTRACE_BIN $trace_path | grep ${event_exp} | wc -l)
+       local count=$($BABELTRACE_BIN $trace_path | grep --extended-regexp ${event_exp} | wc -l)
        local total=$($BABELTRACE_BIN $trace_path | wc -l)
 
        if [ "$count" -ne 0 ] && [ "$total" -eq "$count" ]; then