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Bash-Script that almost writes itself. To demonstrate that bash scripts are written line by line
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pseudoquine.sh
#!/bin/sh
#Program that almost writes itself into itself (but not quite), demonstrate that bash is executed line by line rather than whole file
CURR_FILENAME=$0
echo "Hello World"
sed -n '5,6 p' $CURR_FILENAME >> $CURR_FILENAME #Write 4th and 5th line into same file (i.e. echo + sed)
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