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<h3 id="_trim_trailing_spaces">Trim trailing spaces</h3>
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<h3 id="_trim_trailing_spaces">Trim trailing spaces</h3>
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<td class="content">As of Megatest version v1.6548 trim-trailing-spaces defaults to yes.</td>
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<pre># A normal waiton waits for the prior tests to be COMPLETED
# and PASS, CHECK or WAIVED
waiton test1 test2</pre>
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<td class="content">Dynamic waiton lists must be capable of being calculated at the
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<pre># A normal waiton waits for the prior tests to be COMPLETED
# and PASS, CHECK or WAIVED
waiton test1 test2</pre>
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<td class="content">Dynamic waiton lists must be capable of being calculated at the
beginning of a run. This is because Megatest walks the tree of waitons
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testname1/itempath A comment about why it was waived
testname2          A comment for a non-itemized test</pre>
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<div class="title">Example ezsteps with logpro rules</div>
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<pre>[ezsteps]
lookittmp   ls /tmp

[logpro]
lookittmp ;; Note: config file format supports multi-line entries where leading whitespace is removed from each line
  ;;     a blank line indicates the end of the block of text
  (expect:required in "LogFileBody" &gt; 0 "A file name that should never exist!" #/This is a awfully stupid file name that should never be found in the temp dir/)</pre>
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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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<h4 id="_automatic_environment_propagation_with_ezsteps">Automatic environment propagation with Ezsteps</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Simply give your step name an extension of .sh or .csh. The environment variables will be propagated.</p></div>
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<td class="content">aliases and variables with strange whitespace or characters will not propagate correctly. Put in a ticket on the <a href="http://www.kiatoa.com/fossils/megatest">http://www.kiatoa.com/fossils/megatest</a> site if you need support for a specific strange character combination.</td>
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<div class="title">Example of auto propagation</div>
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<pre>[ezsteps]
step1.sh export SOMEVAR=$(ps -def | wc -l);ls /tmp
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step2.sh echo $SOMEVAR</pre>
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<h3 id="_ezsteps">Ezsteps</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Ezsteps is the recommended way to implement tests and automation in Megatest.</p></div>
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<div class="title">Example ezsteps with logpro rules</div>
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<pre>[ezsteps]
lookittmp   ls /tmp

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  ;;     a blank line indicates the end of the block of text
  (expect:required in "LogFileBody" &gt; 0 "A file name that should never exist!" #/This is a awfully stupid file name that should never be found in the temp dir/)</pre>
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<h4 id="_automatic_environment_propagation_with_ezsteps">Automatic environment propagation with Ezsteps</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Turn on ezpropvars or simply give your step name an extension of .sh or .csh. The environment variables will be propagated.</p></div>
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<img src="/usr/images/icons/note.png" alt="Note">
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<td class="content">aliases and variables with strange whitespace or characters will not propagate correctly. Put in a ticket on the <a href="http://www.kiatoa.com/fossils/megatest">http://www.kiatoa.com/fossils/megatest</a> site if you need support for a specific strange character combination.</td>
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<div class="title">Turn on auto propagate for bash</div>
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<pre>[setup]
ezpropvars sh /bin/bash</pre>
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<div class="title">Turn on auto propagate for csh</div>
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<pre>[setup]
ezpropvars csh /bin/csh</pre>
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<div class="title">Example of auto propagation using extensions</div>
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<pre>[ezsteps]
step1.sh export SOMEVAR=$(ps -def | wc -l);ls /tmp
# The next step will get the value of $SOMEVAR from step1.sh
step2.sh echo $SOMEVAR</pre>
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<div class="title">Example of multi-line script</div>
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<pre>[scripts]
tarresults tar cfvz $DEST/srcdir1.tar.gz srcdir1
  tar cfvz $DEST/srcdir2.tar.gz srcdir2

[setup]
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[ezsteps]
step1 DEST=/tmp/targz;source tarresults</pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>The above example will result in files; tarresults and ez_step1 being
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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>[triggers]
COMPLETED/ xterm -e bash -s --</pre>
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<pre>[triggers]
COMPLETED/ xterm -e bash -s --</pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>There are a number of environment variables available to the trigger script
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