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# Getting started using ShellCommandActivity
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The **Getting Started using ShellCommandActivity** template runs a shell command script to count the number of GET requests in a log file. The output is written in a time-stamped Amazon S3 location on every scheduled run of the pipeline.

The template uses the following pipeline objects:
+ ShellCommandActivity
+ S3InputNode
+ S3OutputNode
+ Ec2Resource