I just need to create a little script that does the below when I execute it.

How would I go about creating this?

**whoops, this should've went in the Linux NEWBIE section, not the software section.

Save that to a file, then make it executable with:
"chmod +x insert-filename-here"

To create a shell script, (a batch file in the linux world)
open your favorite editor and edit new file.
The name does not realy matter in linux but "cleanup.sh" would be a nice one.
Note that the extension .sh is not mandatory in linux,
as opposed to windows where batchfiles must have a .bat extension.

in your editor type:
#!/bin/bash
rm -f /home/ken/.etwolf/etmain/profiles/CheewagaCheewaga/profile.pid
rm -f /home/ken/.etwolf/etpro/profiles/CheewagaCheewaga/profile.pid


And save this 3 line file.

The first line indicates which shell enviroment should execute the script.
Normaly /bin/bash is what you want, but you may also write in Perl or any even php for that matter.
(But if you use php you should point to the php command line interpreter)

Now to make the scrip executable do a:

chmod 0700 cleanup.sh

This will set the owner_user read / write / execute permissions on this file to true, all other users may not
read write or execute this script.

If your script lies in your current directory you can do:
./cleanup.sh

to start it.
(normaly command/scripts from the current directory will not run for security reasons, ask if you want to know why....)


The other method would be to mv the file to /urs/local/bin (as root) so it will be in your search path.


Hope this helps.

read the bash scripting howto for more info:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Zhangmaike is perfectly correct in what he says.

For consistancy, you might want to give the file a .sh (as in shell) extension. Not that bash cares like MS operating systems would, but it is a convention.

The other thing I would mention is that unless you write the file to a pathed directory, you will have to either specify the full path of the file or be in the file's directory and call it as sh ./filename.sh.

I keep a user pathed ~/bin directory for my shell and perl scripts. You can edit your .bash_profile file to add that directory to your path if you choose.

Sorry if these were things you were already aware of.

Jim Dishaw

(edit)

Looks like I was posting at the same time as another poster. Once I submitted my post I saw his. I'm not just repeating his post.

Thanks for all your help!