Unix Shell Scripts Introduction
March 15, 2007 by Mark Marucot · Leave a Comment
A shell script is a script written for the shell or command line interpreter of an operating system like Unix. This script contains list of commands that are run in sequence.
History of Shell Scripting
Steve Bourne create the first Unix shell designed for scripting named Bourne shell (sh) which appeared in the Seventh Edition Bell Labs Research version of Unix. It remains the standard command line interface to Unix. The first Unix shell was Thompson shell written by Ken Thompson in the first version of Unix in 1971.
