Why we are writting shell scripts?
Plz if possible explain it briefly.

Answer Posted / ashok

Shell is a command interpeter. If we want to run multiple
commands at a time through a script file then it is called
shell scripts.

Generally we will write these to set certain environmental
variables in unix and run some other programs.

The shell scripts utility programs to perform certain tasks
in unix environment.

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