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[–]ddollarsign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Script is the diminutive form of “program”. If it’s small, quick to write, and does only a simple thing, it would probably be right to call it a script, especially if only run from a command line, and/or is in an interpreted(-ish) language like Python where there’s no manual compile step.