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Script

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A script is a term developers use to refer to a file of code that does something scoped and specific: to be distinguished from an app or a system, which is probably many files and does a lot more. A script might empty the trash on your computer, retrieve and format some weather data from an API, clean old records out of a database, or update the weekly metrics for the board deck.

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