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NAME
     dejagnu — DejaGnu auxiliary command launcher

SYNOPSIS
     dejagnucommand⟩ [--help | options...]
     dejagnu --help
     dejagnu --version

DESCRIPTION
     The dejagnu command finds a script that implements the requested command,
     selects from multiple implementations if available according to a fixed
     internal list, and executes the command.

OPTIONS
     --help     Print a help message instead of running a command.  If no com-
                mand is given, prints brief usage for dejagnu itself.

     -V, --version
                Print a version banner for the launcher itself including the
                version of DejaGnu.  Any command given is ignored.

     -v, --verbose
                Emit additional output describing the operation of the dejagnu
                launcher itself.  This option is also passed on to the invoked
                command.

     All arguments after the command name are passed to the invoked command.

ENVIRONMENT
     DEJAGNULIBS  If set, the location of DejaGnu's library in the filesystem.
                  The search described in FILES does not happen if DEJAGNULIBS
                  is set.

     AWK          Full file name for an Awk interpreter that may or may not
                  actually be GNU Awk.  If not set, PATH will be searched for
                  an awk program.  If the Awk interpreter is actually GNU Awk,
                  the --posix option will be given if an Awk implementation is
                  used.

     GAWK         Full file name for GNU Awk.  If not set, PATH will be
                  searched for a gawk program.

     BASH         Full file name for GNU Bash.  If not set, PATH will be
                  searched for a bash program.  Note that Bash itself sets
                  this variable, even when run as sh, even when running a
                  script.

     EXPECT       Full file name for Expect, which is a Tcl interpreter with
                  the Expect extension already loaded.  If not set, PATH will
                  be searched for an expect program.  Note that the DejaGnu
                  core is written in Expect, so this interpreter should always
                  be available.

     TCLSH        Full file name for a Tcl interpreter.  If not set, PATH will
                  be searched for a tclsh program.

     Note that GNU Awk is considered a superset of Awk and that Expect is con-
     sidered a superset of Tcl, allowing the former to be used to run scripts
     written for the latter.  This means that, while Awk programs will gener-
     ally be run with GNU extensions disabled using the --posix option to GNU
     Awk, Tcl programs may be run with either tclsh or expect and should be
     written accordingly.

FILES
     $DEJAGNULIBS/commands  If DEJAGNULIBS is set, all command scripts are ex-
                            pected to be in this directory.
     Otherwise, the first directory that actually exists in the following list
     is used, where @bindir@ represents the directory containing dejagnu it-
     self.

           @bindir@/../share/dejagnu/commands

           @bindir@/../../share/dejagnu/commands

           /usr/share/dejagnu/commands

           /usr/local/share/dejagnu/commands

SEE ALSO
     The full documentation for DejaGnu is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
     the info program is properly installed at your site, the command info
     dejagnu should give you access to the complete manual.

AUTHORS
     Jacob Bachmeyer

BUGS
     The command name must precede all other arguments due to limitations of
     the shell.

GNU                            December 17, 2018                           GNU

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