shell scripting
Command-line programming language
Shell scripting is writing programs in a shell language—the command-line interface of Unix-like operating systems.
These scripts automate tasks by stringing together commands that would otherwise be typed one at a time: I wrote a shell script to back up my files every night.
Bash is the most common shell scripting language, though others exist.
The term sometimes extends loosely to any command-line automation.
- shebangEverything, in casual speech
- bashForceful striking blow
- grepText pattern search utility
- text processingManipulating written digital content
- shVoiceless fricative digraph
automation · redirect · stdout · echo · Perl · stdin · error handling · file permissions · chmod · cd · for loop · if statement · pipes · unix · Linux · Python · ash · sudo
programming paradigm and abstraction level
shell scriptingapplication development
Creating programs for users