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The shell Packer provisioner provisions machines built by Packer using shell
scripts. Shell provisioning is the easiest way to get software installed and
configured on a machine.
shell-local will run a shell script of your choosing on the machine where Packer
is being run - in other words, it shell-local will run the shell script on your
build server, or your desktop, etc., rather than the remote/guest machine being
provisioned by Packer.
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Type: `shell-local`
The local shell provisioner executes a local shell script on the machine running
Packer. The [remote shell](/docs/provisioners/shell.html) provisioner executes
shell-local will run a shell script of your choosing on the machine where Packer
is being run - in other words, it shell-local will run the shell script on your
build server, or your desktop, etc., rather than the remote/guest machine being
provisioned by Packer.
The [remote shell](/docs/provisioners/shell.html) provisioner executes
shell scripts on a remote machine.
## Basic Example

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