Re: Another atf_check question

[Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> What I ended up doing was to call the shell function with output
> redirection, then using cmp(1) to compare with the golden output.
>
>        xxx_body() {
>                xxx_test > out 2>&1
>                atf-check -s 0 -o ignore -e ignore \
>                        "cmp -s out ${files}xxx.exp"
>        }

If you want to go this route, I recommend either this:

    cmp -s out ${files}xxx.exp || atf_fail "hey hey, i failed"

or this:

    atf_check -o file:${files}xxx.exp cat out

-- 
Julio Merino