Swift Quickstart
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Download Swift
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The latest stable Swift release is Swift 0.94.1. 

1. Download the file from http://swiftlang.org/packages/swift-0.94.1.tar.gz. 
2. Extract by running "tar xfz swift-0.94.1.tar.gz"
3. Add to PATH by running "export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/swift-0.94.1/bin"  

Run Swift
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Example Swift scripts can be found in the swift-0.94.1/examples directory.
Scripts have a .swift file extension. Run the following commands
to launch a simple hello world application.

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cd swift-0.94.1/examples/
swift hello.swift
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When you run this application, it should create a file called hello.txt.

More documentation on how to run Swift can be found at 
http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/docs/index.php.