🚀 run $command

Simplest possible run command for beautiful shell script tests!

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• Simple interface for running commands or functions
• Stores return or exit code in easy-to-use variable
• Stores standard output and error output in easy-to-use variables
• Runs command in either current shell or runs in a subshell

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Download the latest version or install via:

curl -o- https://run.specs.sh/install.sh | bash

Source the downloaded run.sh script to use in your tests:

source "run.sh"

run echo "Hello, world"

echo "$STDOUT"
# => "Hello, world"

echo "$STDERR"
# => ""

echo "$EXITCODE"
# => "0"

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run $command

$STDOUT

To get the standard output, check the $STDOUT variable:

run echo "Hello, world"

echo "$STDOUT"
# => Hello, world

$STDERR

To get the standard output, check the $STDERR variable:

run foo "This command does not exist"

echo "$STDERR"
# => foo: command not found

$EXITCODE

To get the standard output, check the $EXITCODE variable:

run echo "Hello, world"

echo $EXITCODE
# => 0

run foo "This command does not exist"

echo $EXITCODE
# => 127

{ Current Shell } or {{ Subshell }}

To run a function or command in the current shell:

• Call normally (no curly braces / no brackets)

  run echo "Hello world" # <--- runs in current shell
  

Alternatively, to run a function or command in the current shell:

• Call and wrap with a single curly braces or single brackets

  run { echo "Hello world" } # <--- runs in current shell
  run [ echo "Hello world" ] # <--- runs in current shell 
  

To run a function or command in a subshell:

• Call and wrap with double curly braces or double brackets:

  run {{ echo "Hello world" }} # <--- runs in a SUBSHELL
  run [[ echo "Hello world" ]] # <--- runs in a SUBSHELL
  

ℹ️ Subshells

Commands run inside subshells have access to all local variables but changes are not reflected in the outer shell:

• setX() { x="$1"; }
  x=5
    
  run {{ setX 42 }} # <--- run in subshell
  echo "$x"
  # => 5            # <--- value of 'x' is still 5
    
  run setX 42       # <--- run in current shell
  echo "$x"
  # => 42           # <--- value of 'x' changed to '42'
  

run supports both braces and brackets to support commands which use brackets or braces as arguments.

To call the [ shell builtin function, you must wrap the command in braces: run { [ 1 -eq 2 ] }