[GSoC] Intro and Micro-project

Hello, I am Edwin, a first year undergrad in the department of computing, Imperial College London. This is my first message to this mailing list! I want to work on the micro-project "avoiding pipelines in test scripts". I'm really excited to work on such a massive project (ie, git, not the microproject) and be in contact with the people who put it all together. I'm curious about how software development works at this scale, since it feels quite different from the small projects I've used to work on. I use bash quite frequently for automating tasks, and I have experience in C, through a uni project of making an assembler.

I found and looked at a few places with pipes. I have a few thoughts and questions on making a change. Firstly (if this is relevant), how do I ensure that the file I write the std output to doesn't have a name clash with other such files made during tests?

I will follow up with an email of the proposed patch. Regards, Edwin.