notes/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 f

There are various shells with their own language syntax. 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:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Hello, World!"