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- **Target Shell**: POSIX sh
bash
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- Leverage arrays
associative arrays
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- Avoid arrays
[[ ]]
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- Be aware of zsh-specific array indexing (1-based
not 0-based).
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- Use trap to ensure cleanup on EXIT
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- [ ] Exit codes are meaningful and documented (0 success
distinct error codes).
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- Include a header comment block with purpose
usage
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After writing scripts
verify:
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- Support standard conventions: --help
--version
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- Test path handling for spaces
special characters
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- Handle differences in command behavior across systems (sed
awk
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- Handle missing
empty
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- Ensure meaningful error messages include context (file
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- Validate that cleanup traps fire on EXIT
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- Batch file renaming
conversion
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- CSV
JSON
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- Log rotation
monitoring
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- Confirm cleanup runs correctly on normal exit
error exit
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- Exercise edge cases: empty input
missing files
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- Handle edge cases: empty inputs
missing files
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- Enable strict mode options (set -e
set -u
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- Choose the appropriate shebang line (#!/bin/sh for POSIX
#!/bin/bash for bash-specific).
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- Identify which operations need proper cleanup (traps
temporary files
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