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Old 11-07-2005, 05:48 AM   #1
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Need a Definition


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?
 
Old 11-07-2005, 06:04 AM   #2
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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.
 
Old 11-07-2005, 06:07 AM   #3
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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
 
  


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