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On Nov 28, 2007, at 02:17, Ovid wrote: >> I would like to be able to provide the tests run via 'prove' with >> options something like this: >> >> some_variant_of_prove t/*.t --option1 --option2 arg1 arg2 >> >> ... where those 4 command-line options/arguments would be available >> to >> *each* of the individual test files in the suite. > > Sorry, I just saw this. > > What you want is the --exec switch which, I'm embarassed to > realize, is > not documented terribly well. Oops. Could we not add a feature to prove and/or runtests such that, any arguments after a bare "--" will be passed on to the scripts it runs? I've often wanted this myself, and --exec seems like overkill to me. Best, DavidThread Previous | Thread Next