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## Basics of Scripting (1 of 3) * **Environmental variable** (sometimes called a system variable): * Information in the OS makes available to a script * **Comment syntax:** * Refers to how you tag the text as a comment so that it is not interpreted as a command * **Basic loop:** * Execu...

## Basics of Scripting (1 of 3) * **Environmental variable** (sometimes called a system variable): * Information in the OS makes available to a script * **Comment syntax:** * Refers to how you tag the text as a comment so that it is not interpreted as a command * **Basic loop:** * Executes the same commands multiple times until some condition is met * **Variable:** * The name of an unknown data item and can be assigned a value, which is called initializing the variable. * Two common data types are: * **Integers** (whole numbers) and **strings** (text)