Practical 5

Writing of Shell Scripts (Shell programming).

Shell Script:
A sequence of commands saved to a file and this file is nothing but shell script.
Inside shell script, we can also use programming features like conditional statements, loops,
functions etc. Hence we can write scripts very easily for complex requirements also.
Best suitable for automated tasks.
How to write and run Shell Script:
Step - 1: Write script
demo.sh:
echo "Welcome to shell script"
date
cal
Step - 2: Provide execute permissions to the script: $ chmod a+x demo.sh
Step 3: Run the script
We can run the script in multiple ways
$/bin/bash ./demo.sh
$ bash ./demo.sh
Importance of Sha-Bang:
By using sha-bang, we can specify the interpreter which is responsible to execute the script.
#→ Sharp
! → Bang
#!Sharp Bang or Shabang or Shebang
#!/bin/bash It means the script should be executed by bash
#!/bin/sh It means the script should be executed by Bourne Shell
#!/usr/bin/python3 → It means the script should be executed by Python3 interpreter
If we write shabang in our script at the time of execution, we are not required to provide
command to execute and we can execute script directly.
Was to display present working directory, current date, calendar.
Script Output

WAS to read student name, roll no, subject, fee and save to na file “out.txt”.

WAS to print table of a number entered through console .