Need a Definition

dudeman41465 · 11-07-2005, 04:48 AM

What exactly is the definition of a shell script? I'm newish to Linux and still teaching myself the Linux command line and I see this quite often, what exactly is it?

syg00 · 11-07-2005, 05:04 AM

Think bat file - just a file of commands. Go have a look here.
Says "advanced", but is the old "basic" guide consolidated.

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In the simplest case, a script is nothing more than a list of system commands stored in a file. At the very least, this saves the effort of retyping that particular sequence of commands each time it is invoked.

heema · 11-07-2005, 05:07 AM

here is a detailed explanation of shell scripts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_scripts

Basically scripts are collections of commands that are stored in a file. The shell can read this file and act on the commands as if they were typed at the keyboard