Coming from the DOS world we used batch file or macros to automate long command line functions. I have a list of commands I would like to execute like a batch file and I was wondering if somone could give me a clue.

The command are mounts for setting up network shares with my windows machines using smbfs. I know I could automount them on boot but I would rather have the control to mount them and then unmount them using a batch file type macro file. Would it be a script in the linux world if so how do i create it and then run it. any help would be great thx

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micro

It's (can be) really simple, start with:

#!/bin/bash

To tell linux which shell to use, then just add your commands. e.g.:

mount /share1
mount /share2

Save the file as whatever, then do a "chmod 755 whatever" to make it executable (assuming that these are the permissions that you want the file to have).

Here's some links to some light reading

http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/Se...ticle216.shtml
http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr...ll+programming


John

I figured it out and it worked great I used pico to create a new file put the (#!/bin/bash/) in there and went to town with my commands. Then did the chmod 755 filename and ran it execpt for a few typos it worked fine. I am going to be a shell scripting madman watch out world.

Thank man you put me on the right track anbd thats what I needed

micro out

Uh oh!

Next time try "mc". It is a Norton Commander clone and has its own editor. Very nice.


Anytime. Enjoy


John