

They will use that particular interpreter. They have no "language" and are interpreted by your shell (interpreter of terminal commands) or if the first line is in the form #!/path/to/interpreter

They are used in many variations of UNIX-like operating systems.
#HOW IS A SH FILE RECOGNIZED BY OS X FOR LAUNCHING CODE#
Anyone willing to just simply say what needs to be done from square one after getting to the page with the code to actually implementing it? Thanks. I'm sure there's a simple explanation on what to do with these files out there, but it seems to be buried in plenty of posts where people are already assuming you know what to do with these files. Just by a quick Google on the file type I haven't been able to get heads or tails on it. I'm guessing you're supposed to paste the code in to some other unmentioned application for a browser (using Chrome or Firefox in this case)? It almost looks like something that could be pasted in to Firefox/Greasemonkey, but not quite. So, what exactly am I supposed to do with this code? The website doesn't provide further instructions, assuming users know what to do with it. In order to download a range of tiles at once, they say to download their script, which eventually leads to daymet-nc-retrieval.sh: I'm trying to download map data sets which are arranged in tiles that can be downloaded individually: So I am not experienced in dealing with a plethora of file types, and I haven't been able to find much info on exactly what.
