scitools(1) [debian man page]
SCITOOLS(1) General Commands Manual SCITOOLS(1) NAME
scitools - run a SciTools command SYNOPSIS
scitools command [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION
The scitools script takes a command and runs a corresponding utility. The available commands are listed below. file2interactive Utility for taking a set of Python statements in a file and creating the corresponding interactive Python shell session. floatdiff Script for examining differences in regression tests involving floating-point numbers. Used in [1]. regression Simple front-end script to SciTools' Regression module. Used in [1]. ps2mpeg Utility for turning a set of PostScript files into an MPEG movie, using mpeg_encode or ppmtompeg. profiler Script for simplifying the execution of Python's profiling tools. Used in [1]. rename Script for renaming a set of files by substituting one string or regular expression with another. subst Script for subsituting a phrase by another in a set of files. Accepts regular expressions. Treated in [1]. replace Script for subsituting a phrase by another in a set of files. Does not use regular expressions, just plain text (well suited for substituting text with much use of backslashes, curly braces, and other special characters in regular expressions (e.g., LaTeX text). movie Script for creating a movie file from a sequence of image files (frames). By default an HTML file for displaying the image (PNG) files are made. pyreport Processes a Python script and pretty prints the results using LateX. If the script uses show() commands (from scitools.easyviz) they are caught by pyreport and the resulting graphs are inserted in the output pdf. Comments lines starting with "#!" are interpreted as rst lines and pretty printed accordingly in the pdf. [1] H. P. Langtangen: Python Scripting for Computational Science. Third edition, second printing. Springer, 2009. OPTIONS
-h, --help Show usage for all commands and exit. BUGS
Send comments, questions, bug reports etc. to scitools@googlegroups.com. LICENSE
SciTools is licensed under the new BSD license. AUTHOR
SciTools is written by Hans Petter Langtangen <hpl@simula.no>, Johannes Ring <johannr@simula.no>, Ilmar Wilbers <ilmarw@simula.no>, and Rolv E. Bredesen <rolv@simula.no>. This manual page is written by Johannes Ring <johannr@simula.no>. SCITOOLS(1)
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Test::Script - Basic cross-platform tests for scripts DESCRIPTION
The intent of this module is to provide a series of basic tests for 80% of the testing you will need to do for scripts in the script (or bin as is also commonly used) paths of your Perl distribution. Further, it aims to provide this functionality with perfect platform-compatibility, and in a way that is as unobtrusive as possible. That is, if the program works on a platform, then Test::Script should always work on that platform as well. Anything less than 100% is considered unacceptable. In doing so, it is hoped that Test::Script can become a module that you can safely make a dependency of all your modules, without risking that your module won't on some platform because of the dependency. Where a clash exists between wanting more functionality and maintaining platform safety, this module will err on the side of platform safety. FUNCTIONS
script_compiles script_compiles( 'script/foo.pl', 'Main script compiles' ); The "script_compiles" test calls the script with "perl -c script.pl", and checks that it returns without error. The path it should be passed is a relative unix-format script name. This will be localised when running "perl -c" and if the test fails the local name used will be shown in the diagnostic output. Note also that the test will be run with the same perl interpreter that is running the test script (and not with the default system perl). This will also be shown in the diagnostic output on failure. script_runs script_runs( 'script/foo.pl', 'Main script runs' ); The "script_runs" test executes the script with "perl script.pl" and checks that it returns success. The path it should be passed is a relative unix-format script name. This will be localised when running "perl -c" and if the test fails the local name used will be shown in the diagnostic output. The test will be run with the same perl interpreter that is running the test script (and not with the default system perl). This will also be shown in the diagnostic output on failure. SUPPORT
All bugs should be filed via the bug tracker at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-Script> For other issues, or commercial enhancement and support, contact the author. AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> SEE ALSO
prove, <http://ali.as/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2006 - 2009 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. perl v5.18.2 2009-11-23 Test::Script(3)