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A shell script is a file containing one or more commands that you would type on the command line. This chapter describes how to create such a file and make it executable. It also covers some other issues surrounding shell scripts, including what to name the files, where to put them, and how to run them.
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© 2015 Chris F. A. Johnson and Jayant Varma
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Johnson, C.F.A., Varma, J. (2015). Hello, World: Your First Shell Program. In: Pro Bash Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0121-3_1
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