Week 13 Reflection: When Should You Automate an Investigation Step?

Use your Bash script and cross-platform translation card.

Write 150 to 250 words, or record an equivalent explanation, responding to this prompt:

Why should an analyst prove a command works manually before putting it into a script?

Include:

• one pipeline stage
• one assumption about the input format
• one safety check
• one example of state-changing output or redirection
• one cross-platform difference
• one test using known expected results

Finish with:

I would automate this task only after ________.