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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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<h3 id="_trim_trailing_spaces">Trim trailing spaces</h3>
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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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<img src="/nfs/pdx/disks/ice.disk.002/icfadm/pkgs/asciidoc/8.6.7/images/icons/note.png" alt="Note">
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<td class="content">Dynamic waiton lists must be capable of being calculated at the
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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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<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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<td class="content">Each ezstep must be a single line. Use the [scripts] mechanism to create multiline scripts (see example below).</td>

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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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<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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<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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testname1/itempath A comment about why it was waived
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_ezsteps">Ezsteps</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Ezsteps is the recommended way to implement tests and automation in
Megatest.</p></div>
<div class="admonitionblock">
<table><tr>
<td class="icon">
<img src="/nfs/pdx/disks/ice.disk.002/icfadm/pkgs/asciidoc/8.6.7/images/icons/note.png" alt="Note">
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to create multiline scripts (see example below).</td>
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</div>
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<div class="title">Example ezsteps with logpro rules</div>
<div class="content monospaced">
<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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<div class="sect3">
<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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<table><tr>
<td class="icon">
<img src="/nfs/pdx/disks/ice.disk.002/icfadm/pkgs/asciidoc/8.6.7/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>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[setup]
ezpropvars sh</pre>
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<div class="title">Write your ezsteps. The loadenv.csh step will use /bin/csh as its shell, other steps will use bash.</div>
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<pre>[ezsteps]
loadenv.csh source $REF/ourenviron.csh
compile make
install make install</pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Bash and csh are supported. You can override the shell binary location
from the default /bin/bash and /bin/csh if needed.</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="title">Turn on auto propagate for csh</div>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[setup]
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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
but since triggers can be called in various contexts not all variables are
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