Writing Bash Scripts
Explore how to write and execute Bash scripts for automating tasks in the command-line interface. Understand using commands, variables, loops, and shebangs to create executable scripts that simplify repetitive actions like setting up projects.
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Throughout this course, you’ve worked with the Bash shell. You’ve used various commands and programs to work with files, directories, text, and even data over a network.
What is a Bash script?
A Bash script is a file that contains a list of commands we want the computer to execute. When we run the script, the commands will execute one at a time, sequentially, until all of the commands are run. We can use any command we’d normally type in our terminal, which means we can use everything we’ve learned about the command-line interface in a script. But Bash scripts support more than just commands. We can use variables, conditional statements, loops, and arrays. We can get input from files, pass command-line arguments, or even prompt the user for input for a ...