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Old 10-05-2007
How to execute a bash file in terminal?
How do I execute a bash file in the terminal, after I created one?
# 2  
Old 10-06-2007
simple type bash space and the file name
$ bash bar
$ sh bar
$ ./bar
if ur using ./ means ten u hav to change the premission chmod 755Smilie
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Old 10-06-2007
the standard method for calling the shell for a script is to declare it in the first line of the file. Also called the shebang #!

file: demo.sh
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo Hello, world!

Change the file to executable and run it from the terminal.

Code:
$ chmod +x demo.sh
$ ./demo.sh
Hello, world!

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