What's a script?

[Joep L. Blom]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Steve Flynn wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Siggy Brentrup<ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de> wrote:
> 
>>>> 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?
>>> Though correct, I think this doesn't clear things up for the OP.
>>>
>>> Since the early days of Unix[tm] files containing commands interpreted
>>> by the shell (usually /bin/sh) were called "shell scripts". I just
>>> can't recall if the term is already used in the faumous '70 article in
>>> Bell Journal.  </nitpick>
>> I cmpletely agree. I've used the term shell script since I was first
>> introduced to a VT-52 terminal around 1981. Calling a collection of
>> commands a "bash file" is a misnomer which is what I was attempting to
>> point out to K. F. Larsen.
> 
> 
> 	The term bash file comes from the similarity of it to a Windows bat
> file. Both are executable and they do a useful thing but not a large
> thing. I discovered the bash language to be superior to the Windows
> version.
> 
> 	Just a question. You were using a form of Unix in 1984. Linux came a
> bit later.
> 
> 
> 
> 73 Karl
> 
> 
We used our first Unix in 1979 acquiring 9 tapes from Bell labs and 
installed in on a PDP-11. It was developed as Kernigan & Richie were 
fed-up with the slow multitasking in the current DEC OS (I thought it 
was RSTS but I am not sure). Talking about old gees in computerland....
Joep