What's a script?

[Steve Flynn]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Karl F. Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>        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.

I don't believe it does you know. I've never actually heard the term
"bash file" to refer to a shell script in 30 years of being in the
game. On the other hand, once you've got come idea of what a script
is, it's pretty easy to conclude that a bash file is nothing more than
a shell script written with the Buorne Again Shell in mind.


>        Just a question. You were using a form of Unix in 1984. Linux came a
> bit later.

I was indeed using a form of Unix. I don't actually recall what
version it was thinking back. I recall using SCO Xenix several years
later when teaching a COBOL (/shudder/) course.

As for Linux coming along a bit later, I know - I used to have
tremendous "fun" porting the pre-1.1 kernels onto Motrola 68000
processors many moons ago. So much fun in fact, that I still feel
slightly queasy thinking about it now.

-- 
Steve
When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

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