Abstract
Within a shell file (also known as a shell procedure or shell script), the shell acts as a programming language. Like other languages, the shell provides features like these:
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Flow control commands (if…then…else, while, for, and so on)
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Interrupt handling (trap), variable setting, and parameter passing (refer to Chapter 23, “Bourne Shell Variables”)
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Calls to other commands or shell procedures as subroutines
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Topham, D.W. (1990). Bourne Shell Program Control. In: A System V Guide to UNIX and XENIX. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3246-9_24
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