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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] test: use env variable to run test if set
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 20:29:20 +0530
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-----Original Message-----
> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:53:57 +0000
> From: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> CC: bruce.richardson@intel.com, Harry van Haaren
>  <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] test: use env variable to run test if set
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> 
> This commit paves the way for the meson tests in the next
> patch. With this patch the test binary checks the DPDK_TEST
> environment variable and if set, the contents of the var
> are inserted on the test app command line, and run.
> 
> This allows testing of various different unit tests without
> manual interaction with the RTE>> test prompt, instead automating
> it using the DPDK_TEST environment variable.

Another alternative is to pipe the command.
example:
echo "eventdev_common_autotest" | sudo ./build/app/test