shell scripts help please

[deathbyswiftwind]

Hi I just bought the book wicked cool shell scripts and I need some help. What all do I need to download to write these shell scripts?

[unbuntu]

It depends on what shell your book is dedicated to. Normally bash. If so, you don't have to download anything because bash is the default shell for ubuntu.

[mostwanted]

Hi I just bought the book wicked cool shell scripts and I need some help. What all do I need to download to write these shell scripts?

Scripta are made up of text. You just open Gedit or Kate and start typing, save it and make it an executable.

[IYY]

Ubuntu has the most common shells installed by default (bash, sh). Look at the scripts in the book: the first line of each would be #!/bin/shellname

Where shellname is the name of the shell used. If it's not installed by default, you can get it by

sudo apt-get install shellname