Shell script
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A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by the Unix shell.
Description
The various dialects of shell scripts are considered to be scripting languages.
Typical operations performed by shell scripts include file manipulation, program execution, and printing text. A script which sets up the environment, runs the programme, and does any necessary cleanup, logging, &c is called a wrapper.
Non-Unix scripting
This article is about scripting in UNIX-like systems.
The term is also used more generally to mean the automated mode of running an operating system shell.
- For batch programming in DOS, OS/2 and Windows, see Batch file.
- For batch programming in Windows PowerShell shell, see Windows PowerShell#Scripting.
- For programming in the shells (Cmd.exe) in operating systems of the Windows NT/2000 series, see cmd.exe.
- For shell programming, by means of files called Command Scripts or Procedures on Vax/VMS machines, see DIGITAL Command Language.
