Introduction

Overview

Throughout this course, we’ve used various command-line tools to accomplish tasks faster than we could with a GUI. But when we combine those commands with additional logic, we can create reusable workflows. This is the key to unlocking the command line’s full potential and is a great way to increase productivity.

To create these workflows, we create scripts, which are lists of instructions or commands we want to run in the order and run them. Every command we’ve used so far is something we can use in our own scripts. Whether we need to install multiple software packages, create complex file structures, merge a bunch of JavaScript files, or compile and release software, we can write a script to make that happen.