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Shell script

A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. The various dialects of shell scripts are considered to be command languages. Typical operations performed by shell scripts include file manipulation, program execution, and printing text. A script which sets up the environment, runs the program, and does…

Typical shell languages, Capabilities & Shell scripting on other operating systems

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Typical shell languages

Bourne shellAlmquist shellBusyBoxDebian Almquist shellDebian
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Capabilities

CommentsShebangUnix commandLsShebang
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Shell scripting on other operating systems

CygwinMKS ToolkitInterixHamilton C shellUWIN
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Advantages and disadvantages

RmRoot directoryCpMvPipeline
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Shell scripting on other operating systems

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Shell script

Nodes85
Edges84
Triples90
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.023529
Components1

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Shell script

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related to Shell scripting on other operating systems · 26
Shell script → Applications, AT, Component Object Model, Cygwin, Earlier, Fortran, Hamilton, Interix, Interoperability, Microsoft Windows Services, MKS Toolkit, MS-DOS/Windows, On Unix, OS/2, Perl, POSIX-compliant, Python, Rexx, Scripting, Tcl
related to External links · 10
Shell script → An Introduction To Shell, Apple, BashScripting, Greg GoebelUNIX, Linux, Peter SeebachFree Unix Shell, Programming, Steve ParkerShell Scripting Primer, Ubuntu Linux, What
related to Other scripting languages · 10
Shell script → Although, Even, Java, JavaScript, JIT, Many, Perl, Python, Rexx, Tcl
related to Programming · 7
Shell script → However, Many, Perl, Tcl, The, Unix, With
related to Advantages and disadvantages · 5
Shell script → Interpretive, Non-expert, Often, One, The
related to Batch jobs · 5
Shell script → For, POSIX-compliant, Shell, Since, The
related to Life cycle · 5
Shell script → Perl, Python, Shell, The, While
related to Shortcuts · 2
Shell script → One, Unix
is a · 1
Shell script → computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell

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shell script scripts languages programming scripting shells systems unix command language also bash features run file used syntax perl posix

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Shell scriptis acomputer program designed to be run by a Unix shell0.90text
Pythoninstance ofEven when scripting languages0.80text
Rexxinstance ofEven when scripting languages0.80text
or JavaScript support compilation to bytecode or use JIT to improve performanceinstance ofEven when scripting languages0.80text
they are still commonly referred to asinstance ofEven when scripting languages0.80text
Cygwininstance ofShell scripting on other operating systemsInteroperability software0.80text
the MKS Toolkitinstance ofShell scripting on other operating systemsInteroperability software0.80text
Interixinstance ofShell scripting on other operating systemsInteroperability software0.80text
socketsinstance ofand to add functionality not available in the shell language0.80text
other connectivity functionsinstance ofand to add functionality not available in the shell language0.80text
heavy-duty text processinginstance ofand to add functionality not available in the shell language0.80text
working with numbers if the calling script does not have those abilitiesinstance ofand to add functionality not available in the shell language0.80text

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