TLDR Tech / DevOps
Shell Tool Testing
prove and TAP provide a lightweight way to test Unix shell tools without adding a heavy framework: each shell test prints simple ok / not ok results, and prove discovers, runs, summarizes, parallelizes, and reorders them. A small shared common.sh harness can handle temp directories, assertions, captured stdout/stderr, bailouts, and TAP formatting, making shell test suites easy to grow while keeping failures readable.
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