testing command line utilities

Question

I\'m looking for a way to run tests on command-line utilities written in bash, or any other language.

I\'d like to find a testing framework that would have statements li

Answer 1

Check out ScriptTest :

from scripttest import TestFileEnvironment

env = TestFileEnvironment('./scratch')

def test_script():
    env.reset()
    result = env.run('do_awesome_thing testfile --with extra_win --file %s' % filename)
    # or use a list like ['do_awesome_thing', 'testfile', ...]
    assert result.stdout.startswith('Creating awesome file')
    assert filename in result.files_created

It's reasonably doctest-usable as well.