notes/IT/Scripting.md

## Marking a script as executable
Sometimes, you may need to mark a script as an executable to run it. On Linux, this can be accomplished by `chmod +x [FILE]`, where `[FILE]` is the file you want to mark as executable. To unmark a file as executable, use `chmod -x`

## The Shebang
There are various shells with their own language syntax (`sh`, `bash`, `fish`, etc). Therefore, more complicated scripts will indicate a particular shell by specifying the absolute path to the interpreter as the first line, prefixed by `#!` like this:
```sh
#!/bin/sh
echo "Hello, World!"
```
`#!/bin/sh` means that this script can be executed by the binary located at `/bin/sh`, and so the reader knows this is a `sh`(ell) script.

## Variables
In bash, variable assignment is done with the `=` operator. Variables are conventionally named with `SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE`, and can be accessed by prefixing the variable name with a dollar sign (`$`):
```bash
#!/bin/bash
# There may not be any spaces used during assignment, `A = B` means something different than `A=B`
# Assignment is done with the equal sign (=) operator:
MY_VARIABLE="Hi Mom!"
echo $MY_VARIABLE
```

## Quotes
In Bash, different styles of quotes (or a backtick) mean different things:

| Quote             | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Single Quotes (') | Enclosing characters in single quotes (`'`) preserves the literal value of each character within the quotes. A single quote may not occur between single quotes, even when preceded by a backslash. Commands in single quotes will not be evaluated.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Double Quotes (") | Enclosing characters in double quotes (`"`) preserves the literal value of all characters within the quotes, with the exception of `$`, \`, `\`, and, when history expansion is enabled, `!`. The characters `$` and \‘ retain their special meaning within double quotes. A double quote may be quoted within double quotes by preceding it with a backslash. When the shell is in POSIX mode (see Bash POSIX Mode), the ‘!’ has no special meaning within double quotes, even when history expansion is enabled.<br><br>Within double quotes, substitution can be done using `$()`.<br>```<br>"Output of ls: $(ls)"<br>``` |
| Backtick (\`)     | While a backtick is not technically a quotation mark, it's included here. Backticks are used to substitute the output of one command                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
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## Commands
| Command       | Description                                                                                    |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `exit [CODE]` | Make the script process exit, where `[CODE]` is the exit code the process will terminate with. |
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