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<div class="paragraph"><p>Hint: You can browse the archive using bup commands directly.</p></div>
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<pre>bup -d /path/to/bup/archive ftp</pre>
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<h3 id="_pass_data_from_test_to_test">Pass Data from Test to Test</h3>
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<div class="title">To save the data call archive save within your test:</div>
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<pre>megatest -archive save</pre>
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<div class="title">To retrieve the data call archive get using patterns as needed</div>
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<pre># Put the retrieved data into /tmp
DESTPATH=/tmp/$USER/$MT_TARGET/$MT_RUN_NAME/$MT_TESTNAME/$MT_ITEMPATH/my_data
mkdir -p $DESTPATH
megatest -archive get -runname % -dest $DESTPATH</pre>
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<div class="title">In megatest.config</div>
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<pre>[host-types]

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<div class="paragraph"><p>To transfer the environment to the next step you can do the following:</p></div>
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<div class="title">Propagate environment to next step</div>
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<pre>$MT_MEGATEST -env2file .ezsteps/${stepname}</pre>
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<h3 id="_scripts">Scripts</h3>
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<div class="title">Specifying scripts inline (best used for only simple scripts)</div>
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<pre>[scripts]
loaddb #!/bin/bash
  sqlite3 $1 &lt;&lt;EOF
  .mode tabs
  .import $2 data
  .q
  EOF</pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>The above snippet results in the creation of an executable script
called "loaddb" in the test directory. NOTE: every line in the script
must be prefixed with the exact same number of spaces. Lines beginning
with a # will not work as expected. Currently you cannot indent
intermediate lines.</p></div>
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<div class="title">Full example with ezsteps, logpro rules, scripts etc.</div>
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[include #{getenv MT_RUN_AREA_HOME}/global-testconfig.inc]

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