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# Bats-core: Bash Automated Testing System

Bats is a [TAP](https://testanything.org/)-compliant testing framework for Bash
3.2 or above.  It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you
write behave as expected.

A Bats test file is a Bash script with special syntax for defining test cases.
Under the hood, each test case is just a function with a description.

```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bats

@test "addition using bc" {
  result="$(echo 2+2 | bc)"
  [ "$result" -eq 4 ]
}

@test "addition using dc" {
  result="$(echo 2 2+p | dc)"
  [ "$result" -eq 4 ]
}
```

Bats is most useful when testing software written in Bash, but you can use it to
test any UNIX program.

Test cases consist of standard shell commands. Bats makes use of Bash's
`errexit` (`set -e`) option when running test cases. If every command in the
test case exits with a `0` status code (success), the test passes. In this way,
each line is an assertion of truth.

## Table of contents

**NOTE** The documentation has moved to <https://bats-core.readthedocs.io>

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- [Testing](#testing)
- [Support](#support)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Contact](#contact)
- [Version history](#version-history)
- [Background](#background)
  * [What's the plan and why?](#whats-the-plan-and-why)
  * [Why was this fork created?](#why-was-this-fork-created)
- [Copyright](#copyright)

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## Testing

```sh
bin/bats --tap test
```

See also the [CI](./.github/workflows/tests.yml) settings for the current test environment and
scripts.

## Support

The Bats source code repository is [hosted on
GitHub](https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core). There you can file bugs on the
issue tracker or submit tested pull requests for review.

For real-world examples from open-source projects using Bats, see [Projects
Using Bats](https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core/wiki/Projects-Using-Bats) on
the wiki.

To learn how to set up your editor for Bats syntax highlighting, see [Syntax
Highlighting](https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core/wiki/Synta