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<pre>(setenv SOMEVAR 123;runcmd.sh)

# OR

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<h4 id="_capturing_output_from_a_command">Capturing output from a command</h4>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="title">Use the "script" utility</div>
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<pre>script -c "virtuoso -params and switches ..."</pre>
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<h2 id="_how_to_do_things">How To Do Things</h2>
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<td class="content">As of Megatest version v1.6548 trim-trailing-spaces defaults to yes.</td>
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<h5 id="_run_time_limit">Run time limit</h5>
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<pre>[setup]
# this will automatically kill the test if it runs for more than 1h 2m and 3s
runtimelim 1h 2m 3s</pre>
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<h5 id="_post_run_hook">Post Run Hook</h5>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This runs script to-run.sh after all tests have been completed. It is
not necessary to use -run-wait as each test will check for other
running tests on completion and if there are none it will call the
post run hook.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Note that the output from the script call will be placed in a log file
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<pre>[runs]
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<h3 id="_tests_browser_view">Tests browser view</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The tests browser (see the Run Control tab on the dashboard) has two views for displaying the tests.</p></div>
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<pre># A normal waiton waits for the prior tests to be COMPLETED
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lookittmp   ls /tmp

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<div class="paragraph"><p>To transfer the environment to the next step you can do the following:</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To transfer the environment to the next step you can do the following:
# if your upstream file is csh you can force csh like this
# if your upstream is bash
loadenv     source $REF/ourenviron.sh
loadenv     source $REF/ourenviron.sh</p></div>

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COMPLETED/ xterm -e bash -s --</pre>
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