Lab‐ Scripting 2 - connor0329/repository-1 GitHub Wiki

lab scripting 2 - sys fund.docx

  • bash and python are common scripting languages in Linux
  • a shell is a program that provides services of an operating system to the user and other programs
  • bash is the default shell for most varieties of Linux
  • the combination, "#!" is known as a "shebang"
  • shebang's are used by the shell to decide which interpreter to run the rest of the script, and ignored by the shell that actually runs the script
  • to execute a .py script through Linux you must first use "python3"