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Uhh..wrong. Windows batch programming has just as many flaws/features as bash scripting can have. Syntax, punctuation, etc., are all important. Windows is different than bash, but not easier. If you KNOW something, it's obviously easier than something that you've got to learn new. And a bash script can be as simple as a list of commands...just like it can be in a Windows batch file.

And bahha, I agree totally with MTK358 in post #13...you're not bothering ANYONE, and we're all happy to help you, but you've got to show your work. Posting a verbatim homework question with no evidence that you've tried to do it, won't get you any help. Editing your posts to have all the "#" marks doesn't get you many fans either.

Correction:
it is wrong to just make someone to do your homework for free. And LQ isn't a place for "doing homework for non-free", so you'll have to play by the rules and show some effort.

Everybody started at that point. Linux system has a lot of documentation, so start reading it. Regarding "bash" shell, I think you should be able to type within terminal "info bash" and start reading.

WHY did you remove the script you posted? There was no reason for doing that, and it has made it harder to understand what the following posts refer to. Don't be embarrassed by your mistakes, just learn from them.

Not only that, but the large block of hash-marks you replaced it with now breaks the formatting of the page, forcing it to side-scroll and making the thread harder to read. At the very least remove them, please.

AIUI, the dos batch file language is smaller and simpler than most *nix shells. This does mean that there's less to learn up front. However, this simplicity comes at the cost of being less powerful, so in order to do any complex work you have to become expert at various techniques to work around its limitations.

bash and other shells, OTOH, have many powerful features built-in that can make doing the same things almost routine, once you know them.

OTGH, at a basic user level, they're pretty much equivalent. The simplest kind of script is just a list of commands to execute in sequence, exactly the same as a batch file.

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I'm going to close this thread, but if you need any guidance with specific issues you're having (as opposed to simply posting your homework verbatim), please do feel free to post another thread. Welcome to LQ.

--jeremy