Types of scripts.

Scripting in shell or shell script is nothing but execution of set of commands to achieve a desired objective. Depending upon the nature of work the desired shell script is designed and executed.

There are also various ways to execute scripts written in python, ruby, perl etc which can be executed from shell using respective interpreter mentioned at the first line of script known as “Shebang sequence”.

There are 4 types of shell scripts as of now -

Bash or Bourne again shell

CSH or C shell

KSH or Korn shell

TCSH