Easy way to run assertions against files

[squito]

Just discovered this so apologies if I'm doing something wrong ...

The utils here seem great, but rather than always checking against $output, I would like to use the same utils to test against a file which is generated. I'd really like a simple way to use all of the same goodies but against any file I generated.

Here is my simple hack to enable this for assert_output: squito@1ae8341

if you think this is useful and have suggestions for the api (should it really be a different function, not assert_output?), then I could fix it up, add tests etc and submit a PR.

UPDATE I've added this in a few more places, its available in my fork here: https://github.com/squito/bats-assert/tree/assert_output_file

though the only "tests" so far are that I use it, and it seems to work.

[hikerguy1900]

I would find file support useful too. This is my first day trying to use BATS. As of now I think I can just cat the file and use the existing asserts.

[mlopes]

Shouldn't that be done with bats-files instead?

[squito]

ah you're probably right. I didn't know the whole bats ecosystem. Maybe even covered by ztombol/bats-file#2