LCOV.SH

The best LCOV framework around a BASH project

Requirements

Installation

Download lcov.sh file into your local machine

curl -sL https://git.io/lcov.sh

Install lcov package into your system

apt install lcov

Check if it working

bash lcov.sh -v

Usage

Add the following code [[ -z "${LCOV_DEBUG}" ]] || set -x on top of source file you want in a coverage report, see below example:

#!/usr/bin/env bash 
[[ -z "${LCOV_DEBUG}" ]] || set -x
 
welcome () {
    echo "Hi $1, I'm testable code"
}
 
welcome "John"

Now, run from command line the following command:

lcov.sh FILE...

Testing

TL;DR

not now :-)

Short url

curl -i "https://git.io" \
     -d "url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/javanile/lcov.sh/master/lcov.sh" \
     -d "code=lcov.sh"

Install lcov package

Debian/Ubuntu

apt install lcov

Mac OSX

brew install lcov

See Also

• http://www.skybert.net/bash/debugging-bash-scripts-on-the-command-line/