"batch script": writing and running

Jalalabee · 09-09-2003, 08:45 PM

As is: how can I write and run a "shell" script...and what importance is it that it is a "shell" script?...

THANKS! :-D

DrOzz · 09-09-2003, 09:13 PM

learn shell programming, and an importance i can think of is that it will make you automate tasks...
no one can sit here and tell you how to do it, cause they are all different regarding what you want it for...

contrasutra · 09-09-2003, 09:35 PM

To begin, you can just use the normal commands you know (ls, rm, mv, cp).

Just write a list of commands in a text file, and there's a script.

Jalalabee · 09-09-2003, 11:08 PM

ahh...and to execute a script in a console...would i have to type anything special, as "run 'scriptname'" or something of the sort?

btw thank you for the answer contrasutra.

noticed the arch-linuxes as your distro, yay, cant wait til im as wonderful enough to use the distro myself

Skyline · 09-09-2003, 11:13 PM

First type

echo $PATH

to find a list of directories in which you can run your script from (there separated by colons)

Then just pop your script in one of these directories

Then run your script with

bash path_to_script

Jalalabee · 09-09-2003, 11:22 PM

that does it for me, thanks for all the help...if you happen to drop by and see this...could you leave any fave scripting sites..of any sort just for study by example? :-D

Wee.