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+CTest suffers from at least two issues, in particular with regard to its
+PASS_REGULAR_EXPRESSION feature:
+
+1. The regular expression syntax used by CMake is deficient.
+2. The exit code of a test is ignored if one of the regexes matches.
+
+`ctest-driver.py` tries to fix them.
+
+ $ python3 path/to/tools/ctest-driver.py run --pass-regex OK --fail-regex Fail -- path/to/executable arg1 arg2
+
+In addition, it's a cross-platform `grep`:
+
+ $ python3 path/to/tools/ctest-driver.py grep --pass-regex OK --fail-regex Fail -- path/to/logfile.log