What is shell programming?

Question

I got to know a few basics before starting it......

Answer 1

The following activities are typically performed by the shell in its interpretive cycle:-
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The Shell issues the prompt & wait for you to enter the command.
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After a command is entered, the shell scans the command line to the kernel for the execution.
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The shell waits for the command to complete & normally can’t do any work while the command is running.
Shells have become more powerful by the progressive addition of new features.

Some good books to read are:-
1.Unix Shell Programming by Yeshvant Kanitkar
2. Unix Concepts and Applications by Sumitabha Das.

Answer 2

bash, csh, ksh are some scripting languages.

Answer 3

A shell script is designed to run by Unix operating system.
This programming is done by using commands. If we learn the commands we easily perform shell programming

Answer 4

A set of scripts to run several applications