What's a script?

[Florian Diesch]

Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Karl F. Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>        On Linux we call it a bash file. It is a lot more complex than a .bat
>> files.
>
> We do?

Karl does. Most other people call it a shell script, or a bash script
if it is important which shell is used.


> What if the first line of the script is
>
> #! /bin/ksh
>
> indicating that the following commands should be interepreted by the
> Korn Shell. Should it still be referred to as a "bash file" even if
> the script relies on specific builtin commands only implemented by the
> Korn shell?

No. 



   Florian
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