How To Install bats on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bats on CentOS 7.
What is bats
Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected. Bats is most useful when testing software written in Bash, but you can use it to test any UNIX program.
We can use yum or dnf to install bats on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bats.
Install bats on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bats using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bats
Install bats on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bats using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bats
How To Uninstall bats on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the bats package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bats
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bats on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
