Hello World in Bash — ITLC Tutorials

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This is how you would display “Hello World” in Bash.

Create a text file called hello_world.sh containing the following code:

#!/bin/bash
# declare STRING variable
STRING="Hello World"
#print variable on a screen
echo $STRING

#!/bin/bash

# declare STRING variable

STRING="Hello World"

#print variable on a screen

echo $STRING

Navigate to a directory where your hello_world.sh is located and make the file executable:

$ chmod +x hello_world.sh

1	$ chmod +x hello_world.sh

Now you are ready to execute your first bash script:

./hello_world.sh

1	./hello_world.sh

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