Re^2: Test::More Too Verbose

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Sometimes you have to execute a binary to see if it exists. eg, if you're checking to see if you have GNU cp, you can't just see if there's a file called cp, you need to examine the binary. The easiest way of examining the binary is to execute it.

See, eg, App::Rsnapshot::CheckGNUcp

(please don't use App::Rsnapshot, it's an experimental and as-yet-incomplete rewrite of rsnapshot)

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Re^3: Test::More Too Verbose by Anonymous Monk on Mar 26, 2010 at 11:19 UTC
maybe safer to try `binary --help`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Test::More Too Verbose by DrHyde (Prior) on Mar 30, 2010 at 16:14 UTC
Yes, but even so, you still have to run the thing. In the case of that particular module, the feature of GNU cp I care about is the -l flag, so that's what I test. If you look in the tests for the module, you'll see that they use --help, so that I'm comparing data from two sources.	[reply]

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