This test was not properly documented when it was originally added (my bad). --- test/README | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/test/README b/test/README index 8fbf78d..f9ac607 100644 --- a/test/README +++ b/test/README @@ -156,6 +156,13 @@ library for your script to use. will generate a failure and print the difference of the two strings. + test_expect_equal_file <output> <expected> + + Identical to test_exepect_equal, except that <output> and + <expected> are files instead of strings. This is a much more + robust method to compare formatted textual information, since it + also notices whitespace and closing newline differences. + test_expect_equal_failure <output> <expected> This works similar to test_expect_equal (see above) but is used to -- 1.7.5.4