Also now permit interactivly running tests without explicitly setting
$srcdir. This now works if we are inside ./tests and fails, as before,
when we are in a different directory.
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Merging in multiple steps to avoid getting new tests with non-correct
plumbing.
- some more dynamic file names
- convert more commands to pure bash functions
- cleanup no longer neede files
changes some of the test commands to use bash functions
includes some small bug fixes to tests where bugs were
previously not seen due to different plumbing.