What are different Shell scripts in UNIX?

There are many possible Unix shells that users have access to. Some of these are: sh - Bourne shell (the original shell) ksh - Korn shell bash - Bourne-again shell csh - C shell tcsh - variant of the...

Shell scripts are interpreted files that contain commands and logic sequences to do things. They are similar to programs in that they contain logic and sequencing, and call other programs to...

printf "Enter your name: " ## Prompt user read name ## Get name from user printf "Hello, %s\n" "$name" ## Greet user by name

try a for loop: for x in 1 2 3 4 n=0 do n=`echo $x+$n`|bc done Integer arithmetic can be done in the shell itself without requiring an external program, making the operation much faster: n1=123...

Actually, just about anything you want to do. Depends on the job function requirements.