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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This will install a few bogus/test packages in order to test the
+# `spack view` command.  It assumes you have "spack" in your path.
+
+# It makes sub-directories in your CWD and installs and uninstalls
+# Spack packages named test-*.
+
+set -x
+set -e
+
+view="spack -m view -v"
+for variant in +nom ~nom+var +nom+var
+do
+    spack -m uninstall -f -a -y test-d
+    spack -m install test-d$variant
+    testdir=test_view
+    rm -rf $testdir
+    echo "hardlink may fail if Spack install area and CWD are not same FS"
+    for action in symlink hardlink
+    do
+	$view --dependencies=no   $action $testdir test-d
+	$view -e test-a -e test-b $action $testdir test-d
+	$view                     $action $testdir test-d
+	$view                     status  $testdir test-d
+	$view -d false            remove  $testdir test-a
+	$view                     remove  $testdir test-d
+	rmdir $testdir		# should not fail
+    done
+done
+echo "Warnings about skipping existing in the above are okay"