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IT/Scripting.md

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 ## 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
+## 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
@@ -9,3 +9,5 @@ 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 `=` operat