Introduction to Scripting ICS 215 Ed Meyer What is a scripting language? A scripting language is a programming language.

Creating command pipelines, saving results into files, and reading from standard input are primitives in shell scripting, making it easier to use compared to other scripting languages.

Scripting languages are often used to extend the features of components but they are rarely used for complex algorithms and data structures; features like these are usually pro-vided by the …

Scripting is the action of writing scripts using a scripting language, distinguishing neatly between programs, which are written in conventional programming language such as C,C++,java, and …

cat “$task”.txt >> file done tr '\n' ' ' < file returns: Scripting in bash makes many many things much easier, like putting this sentence together.

What is a scripting language? Perhaps more accurately termed dynamic languages, in reference to the use of dynamic typing.

Course Goals Short-term: Survey of the most popular scripting languages Understand general PL concepts in the context of scripting