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About shellscript.co.uk:

This blog Is just a random collection of posts, mostly about things that I find of interest, (The Geeky Things: Science, technology, computers, TV, art … etc) hopefully you will find them interesting too. One thing I would like to do is fill shellscript.co.uk with a lot of Tutorials & HOWTOs – not that I am an incredibly technical person or a good writer. I just know how helpful they can be.

Shellscript.co.uk is currently running on WordPress using the k2 theme. The design is a little minimal because I threw it together quickly I just wanted to get away from the default k2 theme and add a little personality of my own to it. I know it is not that great and maybe in the future I’ll get bored with it and change it, but for now it will do.

What’s a shell script:

For those of you who are not that sure what an actual shell script is, here is a brief description taken from Wikipedia. If you are not a technical person, it will most likely baffle you further.

A shell script is a script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system. It is often considered a simple domain-specific programming language. Typical operations performed by shell scripts include file manipulation, program execution, and printing text. Usually, shell script refers to scripts written for a Unix shell, while COMMAND.COM (DOS) and cmd.exe (Windows) command line scripts are usually called batch files.

Many shell script interpreters double as a command line interface, such as the various Unix shells, Windows PowerShell or the MS-DOS COMMAND.COM. Others, such as AppleScript, add scripting capability to computing environments without requiring a command line interface. Other examples of programming languages primarily intended for shell scripting include DCL and JCL.