clitest(1) performs automatic testing in command lines

SYNOPSIS

clitest [options] <file ...>

DESCRIPTION

Clitest is a portable POSIX shell script that performs automatic testing in Unix command lines. This script was carefully coded to be portable between POSIX shells

It's the same concept as in Python's doctest module: you document both the commands and their expected output, using the familiar interactive prompt format, and a specialized tool tests them.

The clitest command searches for pieces of text that look like interactive Unix command lines, and then executes those command lines to verify that they work exactly as shown.

OPTIONS

-1, --first
Stop execution upon first failed test
-l, --list
List all the tests (no execution)
-L, --list-run
List all the tests with OK/FAIL status
-t, --test RANGE
Run specific tests, by number (1,2,4-7)
-s, --skip RANGE
Skip specific tests, by number (1,2,4-7)
-q, --quiet
Quiet operation, no output shown
-V, --version
Show program version and exit
-P, --progress TYPE
Set progress indicator: test, number, dot, none
--pre-flight COMMAND
Execute command before running the first test
--post-flight COMMAND
Execute command after running the last test
--color WHEN
Set when to use colors: auto, always, never
--diff-options OPTIONS
Set diff command options (default: '-u')
--inline-prefix PREFIX
Set inline output prefix (default: '#→ ')
--prefix PREFIX
Set command line prefix (default: '')
--prompt STRING
Set prompt string (default: '$ ')

AUTHOR

The CLITEST was written by Aurelio Jargas <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Giovani Augusto Ferreira <[email protected]> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).