SHELL scripting/ shell functions
 

hellow,

does anyone know a good website for scripting-newbies ? I found a tutorial on lingucommand.org, but there seems to be syntax-errors!
so can anyone help me in writing shell functions?

thanks alot in advance

maya

Do you mean linuxcommand.org?

Which commands were giving you syntax errors? I'd be quite surprised if that website had syntax errors in its examples!

shell scripting
 

yes , linuxcommand.org

well, i tried the same program, as written on my computer and it didnt give the results they said it would, here s the example given, ofcourse i saved it in a file rather than directly on the prompt !

[me@linuxbox me]$ function today {
> echo "Today's date is:"
> date +"%A, %B %-d, %Y"
> }
[me@linuxbox me]$

there doesn't seem to be any problem with the syntax of that function

When you create a file:
$ emacs today_date

$ chmod +x today_date
$ ./today_date
Today's date is:
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

shell scripting
 

try saving it in a file,

can u show how to do that?

thx alot for ur help :)

oh yes i see
thx

thanks a million

now it worked, guess it was the last two lines that were missing !

maya