01-20-2014
Just a general comment, "minimize script effort and maximize reusability" are subjective. When I write a new script my goals are [1]efficiency in processing (for example reduce the time going through a file if parsing) and [2] is this easy for someone to understand that may have to modify it. I also see you are assigning the output of ls and find to a variable. Depending on the amount of data, this could exceed the size of a variable.
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