Unit Testing File Modifications

Question

A common task in programs I\'ve been working on lately is modifying a text file in some way. (Hey, I\'m on Linux. Everything\'s a file. And I do large-scale system admin.)

Answer 1

I think you are on the right track. Depending on what you need to do chroot may help you set up an environment for your scrpits that 'looks' real, but isn't.

If that doesn't work then you could write your scripts to take a 'root' path as an argument.

In a production run the root path is just /. For testing you create a shadow environment under /tmp/test and then run your scripts with a root path of /tmp/test.