When I download my e-mail from three or four different POP3 servers, I don’t use a different script for each one. When I open a terminal to ssh to a remote computer (half a dozen of them) with a different background color for each, I use the same script for every connection. To upload files to my websites, I use the same script for all of them.
You can configure a script’s behavior in several ways when you run it. This chapter looks at seven methods: initialized variables, command-line options and arguments, menus, Q&A dialogue, ...
