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# ShellScriptConfig
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Use with an Activity to run a shell script for preActivityTaskConfig and postActivityTaskConfig. This object is available for [HadoopActivity](dp-object-hadoopactivity.md), [HiveActivity](dp-object-hiveactivity.md), [HiveCopyActivity](dp-object-hivecopyactivity.md), and [PigActivity](dp-object-pigactivity.md). You specify an S3 URI and a list of arguments for the script.

## Example
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A ShellScriptConfig with arguments:

```
{
   "id" : "ShellScriptConfig_1”,
   "name" : “prescript”,
   "type" : "ShellScriptConfig",
   "scriptUri": “s3://my-bucket/shell-cleanup.sh”,
   "scriptArgument" : ["arg1","arg2"]
 }
```

## Syntax
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This object includes the following fields.


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| Optional Fields | Description | Slot Type | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| parent | Parent of the current object from which slots are inherited. | Reference Object, for example, "parent":\$1"ref":"myBaseObjectId"\$1 | 
| scriptArgument | A list of arguments to use with the shell script. | String | 
| scriptUri | The script URI in Amazon S3 that should be downloaded and run. | String | 

 


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| Runtime Fields | Description | Slot Type | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| @version | Pipeline version that the object was created with. | String | 

 


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| System Fields | Description | Slot Type | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| @error | Error describing the ill-formed object. | String | 
| @pipelineId | ID of the pipeline to which this object belongs. | String | 
| @sphere | The sphere of an object denotes its place in the lifecycle: Component Objects give rise to Instance Objects, which execute Attempt Objects. | String |