PBS 143 — Shell Script Basics

In this week’s episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots starts building out one more tool in our toolbox: shell scripts. Bart starts with the basics explaining how to tell our little scripts which shell to run using the shebang line, the structure of shell scripts, commenting, assigning, and using variables, and how to write strings without having to escape every space and unusual character. Throughout the installment, Bart refers back to things we learned in Taming the Terminal podcast and tutorial. If you haven’t listened to or read this series, you can download the book Helma helped us to produce using the Apple Books Store (https://books.apple.com/us/book/taming-the-terminal/id1525625941), or access it in a beautiful HTML version at [ttt.bartificer.net/…](https://ttt.bartificer.net/book.html), both of which have the audio of the podcast embedded within. You can find even more formats at [podfeet.com/tttbook](https://www.podfeet.com/blog/download-ttt-book/). Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript: CCATP_2023_01_07 (https://podfeet.com/transcripts/CCATP_2023_01_07.html)