Coreutils test suite commands

Question

I want to see the commands that are ran by the coreutils test commands. For example, assuming that I am running the inode.sh test of ls, I do:

 make check TESTS=tests/ls/inode.sh VERBOSE=yes SUBDIRS=.

I would like to see exactly which 'ls' commands the test is running. That is to say which ls commands are run by inode.sh. Any idea?

Are you trying to see the commands run by the tests/ls/inode.sh script? Or the commands run by make itself? What do you see when you run that command exactly? You could try adding SHELL+=-x to that command line to see more. — Etan Reisner
– Etan Reisner, Commented May 12, 2015 at 21:20
I would like to see the 'ls' commands run by tests. When I run the command above I just see the test result: OK or FAIL. — badnack
– badnack, Commented May 12, 2015 at 21:22
The SHELL+=-x argument might do that but probably won't. You can look at the script presumably or edit it to add set -x to the top. But beyond that if you can't control the execution of the script I'm not sure what else you can do. — Etan Reisner
– Etan Reisner, Commented May 12, 2015 at 21:25
I've just tried, I actually see a giant output, but no the ls commands — badnack
– badnack, Commented May 12, 2015 at 21:48

pixelbeat · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-13 18:59:39Z

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How about:

strace -f -e execve -o execs.out \
make check TESTS=tests/ls/inode.sh VERBOSE=yes SUBDIRS=.
grep -F src/ execs.out

answered May 13, 2015 at 18:59

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