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An admin may desire the ability to make changes or updates to the package and send them to all of the instructors on the system. This will probably not be best done by reading from a plain text file. It would be nice to be able to make changes to each user in the 'instructors' by simply specifying the name of the group and not logging each person to a separate and potentially long text file.

we need to meet and validate all code and make sure there are no more dependency issues with the srcipts

There is limited error handling when the user provides an input file for the bash scripts. Formatting 'errors' currently include simple errors such as adding and leaving blank line entries in files that contain usernames.

Since that text file may be used multiple times in a 'class' we can format the text file to be in a usable state. This entails operations such as removing blank lines and scrubbing away illegal or unwanted characters. This was previously handled in the Perl scripts by reformatting files with DOS line-ending characters for example.

We can simply add this in each script but, I believe this is best handled by adding this feature in its own separate script, 'scrubfile.sh', and putting it in the 'bash/' directory to be sent with the other instructor scripts. The scrubbing will likely be the same routine in each case and having it in one place may make maintenance and updates simpler.