Running JavaScript Shell Script from JSDB

In this tutorial, we take a look at another interactive JavaScript interpreter called JSDB to run JavaScript shell scripts.

Download the zip package from http://www.jsdb.org/download.html (the one without ODBC should suffice for the purpose here).

Extract the downloaded zip file. You will get the JSDB executable file, which is the JavaScript interpreter.

Next, navigate to the directory where the extracted jsdb executable file is located. Open a text editor and insert the below shebang interpreter directive and save the file (as say, hello.js) in the same location

				#!jsdb
			

Add the command writeln("Hello, World!"); after the shebang directive to print "Hello, World"

				#!jsdb
				writeln("Hello, World!");
				
			

Next, we make the hello.js file executable

				chmod u+x hello.js
			

Finally, we run the script file typing the command

				./hello.js