Am 10.06.2013 19:27, schrieb SZEDER Gábor: > My main motivation is that, like in your example, in the bash prompt > tests I only have to check a single line of output, but because of > debuggability I always did: > > echo "(master)" >expected > __git_ps1 >actual > test_cmp expected actual Chained by &&, I presume. > With such a helper function this could be reduced to a single line: > > test_string_equal "(master)" "$(__git_ps1)" > > without loss of functionality Not quite: A non-zero exit code of the $(__git_ps1) is lost. (It probably doesn't matter here, but it certainly does if the command is $(git rev-parse foo) or similar.) -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html