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25.Dd June 21, 2020
26.Dt ATF-CHECK 1
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm atf-check
30.Nd executes a command and analyzes its results
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32.Nm
33.Op Fl s Ar qual:value
34.Op Fl o Ar action:arg ...
35.Op Fl e Ar action:arg ...
36.Op Fl x
37.Ar command
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39.Nm
40executes a given command and analyzes its results, including
41exit code, stdout and stderr.
42.Pp
43.Bf Em
44Test cases must use
45.Xr atf-sh 3 Ns ' Ns s
46.Nm atf_check
47builtin function instead of calling this utility directly.
48.Ef
49.Pp
50In the first synopsis form,
51.Nm
52will execute the provided command and apply checks specified
53by arguments.
54By default it will act as if it was run with
55.Fl s
56.Ar exit:0
57.Fl o
58.Ar empty
59.Fl e
60.Ar empty .
61Multiple checks for the same output channel are allowed and, if specified,
62their results will be combined as a logical and (meaning that the output must
63match all the provided checks).
64.Pp
65In the second synopsis form,
66.Nm
67will print information about all supported options and their purpose.
68.Pp
69The following options are available:
70.Bl -tag  -width XqualXvalueXX
71.It Fl s Ar qual:value
72Analyzes termination status.
73Must be one of:
74.Bl -tag -width signal:<value> -compact
75.It Ar exit:<value>
76checks that the program exited cleanly and that its exit status is equal to
77.Va value .
78The exit code can be omitted altogether, in which case any clean exit is
79accepted.
80.It Ar ignore
81ignores the exit check.
82.It Ar signal:<value>
83checks that the program exited due to a signal and that the signal that
84terminated it is
85.Va value .
86The signal can be specified both as a number or as a name, or it can also
87be omitted altogether, in which case any signal is accepted.
88.El
89.Pp
90Most of these checkers can be prefixed by the
91.Sq not-
92string, which effectively reverses the check.
93.It Fl o Ar action:arg
94Analyzes standard output.
95Must be one of:
96.Bl -tag -width inline:<value> -compact
97.It Ar empty
98checks that stdout is empty
99.It Ar ignore
100ignores stdout
101.It Ar file:<path>
102compares stdout with given file
103.It Ar inline:<value>
104compares stdout with inline value
105.It Ar match:<regexp>
106looks for a regular expression in stdout
107.It Ar save:<path>
108saves stdout to given file
109.El
110.Pp
111Most of these checkers can be prefixed by the
112.Sq not-
113string, which effectively reverses the check.
114.It Fl e Ar action:arg
115Analyzes standard error (syntax identical to above)
116.It Fl x
117Executes
118.Ar command
119as a shell command line, executing it with the system shell defined by
120.Va ATF_SHELL .
121You should avoid using this flag if at all possible to prevent shell quoting
122issues.
123.It Fl r Ar timeout[:interval]
124Repeats failed checks until the
125.Ar timeout
126(in seconds) expires.
127If unspecified, the default
128.Ar interval
129(in milliseconds) is 50 ms.
130This can be used to wait for an expected update to the contents of a file.
131.El
132.Sh ENVIRONMENT
133.Bl -tag -width ATFXSHELLXX -compact
134.It Va ATF_SHELL
135Path to the system shell to be used when the
136.Fl x
137is given to run commands.
138.El
139.Sh EXIT STATUS
140.Nm
141exits 0 on success, and other (unspecified) value on failure.
142.Sh EXAMPLES
143The following are sample invocations from within a test case.
144Note that we use the
145.Nm atf_check
146function provided by
147.Xr atf-sh 3
148instead of executing
149.Nm
150directly:
151.Bd -literal -offset indent
152# Exit code 0, nothing on stdout/stderr
153atf_check 'true'
154
155# Typical usage if failure is expected
156atf_check -s not-exit:0 'false'
157
158# Checking stdout/stderr
159echo foobar >expout
160atf_check -o file:expout -e inline:"xx\etyy\en" \e
161    'echo foobar ; printf "xx\etyy\en" >&2'
162
163# Checking for a crash
164atf_check -s signal:sigsegv my_program
165
166# Combined checks
167atf_check -o match:foo -o not-match:bar echo foo baz
168
169# Wait 5 seconds for a line to show up in a file
170( sleep 2 ; echo "testing 123" > $test_path ) &
171atf-check -o ignore -e ignore -s exit:0 -r 5 \e
172    grep "testing 123" $test_path
173.Ed
174.Sh SEE ALSO
175.Xr atf-sh 1
176