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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Run all test-*.sh functions, fail if any of them fail
+
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied.
+#
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+set -o errexit
+
+# this is mostly syntactic sugar to make it easy on the reader of the tests
+trap exit_trap EXIT
+function exit_trap {
+    local r=$?
+    if [[ "$r" -eq "0" ]]; then
+        echo "All tests run successfully"
+    else
+        echo "ERROR! some tests failed, please see detailed output"
+    fi
+}
+
+for testfile in test-*.sh; do
+    echo "Running $testfile"
+    ./$testfile
+    echo
+done