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+# DEPRECATED Use Bats-Core instead
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+Bats development continues as [bats-core](https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core) at <https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core>.
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+This repository is here only for historical purposes.
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 # Bats: Bash Automated Testing System
 
 Bats is a [TAP](http://testanything.org)-compliant testing framework