#Hello World in Shell scripting

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A shell script is a script written for the shell, or command line interpreter. 
Typical operations performed by shell scripts include file manipulation, program execution, and printing text.
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The shell scripting interpreter installed by default on Debian is the GNU bash..

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##Hello world example

This is the "Hello world !" source code basic example.

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#!/bin/sh
echo Hello world !
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Save it with in <b>hello.sh</b> then run it typing:

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~# chmod +x hello.sh
~# ./hello.sh
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##Related links

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<li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/">GNU Bash official website</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_script">Wikipedia definition of Shell scripting</a></li>
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