Shell script
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A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by the Unix shell, a command line interpreter.
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.
