when a shell script is written and saved, what directory is it saved in? if i run the command "/sync.sh" (without the quotations) from any directory, it runs. whereabouts is the script 'sync.sh' saved?

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depends what file path you give it. /sync.sh goes to a directory called / (the root directory). A sensible place to store scripts is /usr/local/bin/. i.e. /usr/local/bin/sync.sh

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any script stored in any of the paths found in $PATH variable can be run from anywhere!