Bats file will not run test when set to false

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1

It appears that changing the value true to false does not make the tests to run. However, commenting the lines below make the tests to run. Is that expected?

#[[ $BATS_RUN_SKIPPED == "true" ]] || skip

2

Try doing export BATS_RUN_SKIPPED=true before running bats

3

When all the lines #[[ $BATS_RUN_SKIPPED == "true" ]] || skip remain commented, all the tests ran regardless of the value of the exported variable. I even gave them bogus values like trueeee and falseeee and they all run all the same.

user@debian:~/programming/exercism.org/bash/bob$ export BATS_RUN_SKIPPED=true
user@debian:~/programming/exercism.org/bash/bob$ bats bob.bats
bob.bats
 ✓ stating something
 ✓ shouting
 ✓ shouting gibberish
 ✓ asking a question
 ✓ asking a numeric question
 ✓ asking gibberish
 ✓ talking forcefully
 ✓ using acronyms in regular speech
 ✓ forceful question
 ✓ shouting numbers
 ✓ no letters
 ✓ question with no letters
 ✓ shouting with special characters
 ✓ shouting with no exclamation mark
 ✓ statement containing question mark
 ✓ non-letters with question
 ✓ prattling on
 ✓ silence
 ✓ prolonged silence
 ✓ alternate silence
 ✓ multiple line question
 ✓ starting with whitespace
 ✓ ending with whitespace
 ✓ other whitespace
 ✓ non-question ending with whitespace
 ✓ no input is silence
 ✓ yelling a filename expansion
 ✓ asking a filename expansion

28 tests, 0 failures

user@debian:~/programming/exercism.org/bash/bob$ export BATS_RUN_SKIPPED=false
user@debian:~/programming/exercism.org/bash/bob$ bats bob.bats
bob.bats
 ✓ stating something
 ✓ shouting
 ✓ shouting gibberish
 ✓ asking a question
 ✓ asking a numeric question
 ✓ asking gibberish
 ✓ talking forcefully
 ✓ using acronyms in regular speech
 ✓ forceful question
 ✓ shouting numbers
 ✓ no letters
 ✓ question with no letters
 ✓ shouting with special characters
 ✓ shouting with no exclamation mark
 ✓ statement containing question mark
 ✓ non-letters with question
 ✓ prattling on
 ✓ silence
 ✓ prolonged silence
 ✓ alternate silence
 ✓ multiple line question
 ✓ starting with whitespace
 ✓ ending with whitespace
 ✓ other whitespace
 ✓ non-question ending with whitespace
 ✓ no input is silence
 ✓ yelling a filename expansion
 ✓ asking a filename expansion

28 tests, 0 failures
4

Yup. Commenting out the skip lines does mean test skipping won’t happen. But you shouldn’t need to edit the test files.