Follow-up: MFS Meeting. Tue, 16 July "Chat on Programming"

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From: Michael Dorrington <[email protected]>
To: Manchester Free Software <[email protected]>
Cc: Free Software and the United Kingdom <fsfe-uk-mXXj517/[email protected]>
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Subject: Follow-up: MFS Meeting. Tue, 16 July "Chat on Programming"
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On 12/07/2019 09:00, Michael Dorrington wrote:

> * Event: Manchester Free Software's July Meeting
> * What: Chat on Programming

Hopefully the meeting helped people at least get an appreciation of
programming.

If you can type commands on the command line and use a text editor then
you can create a shell script.

In the simplest, you can just put the commands in a text file and run
them by doing:

bash your_file_with_commands

This is assuming you want bash to run the commands.

If you want things a bit more self-contained then add this as the first
line of the file:

#!/bin/bash

and make the file executable by "chmod'ing" the file:

chmod --changes u+x -- your_file_with_commands

Now you can do:

=2E/your_file_with_commands

And if the script's directory is in your PATH then you can just type:

your_file_with_commands

Bash contains the ability to use variables, to do conditional branching
('if / then / elif / else / fi' and '[ ] / test'), loops, regex, arrays,
associative arrays (yes!) and so on.  Bash has had features continually
added to it which means some documentation on Bash programming doesn't
use the new features and non-updated installs of Bash might not have
certain features.

Some exercises:

1. What happens if the script is executable but doesn't have a #! line
at the top?
2. What could you have instead of /bin/bash in the #! line?

M.

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