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Steve Reynolds wrote:

> I have a few commands that I would like to run at the command prompt.
>
> In Windows I do this with a bat file that looks like the sample below. How do 
> I do a similar thing with Linux? 
>  
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A windows BAT file is a rudimentary subset of a shell script. I don't 
know if there are any linux utilities to execute a windows bat file but 
the first thing I'd do is to learn the bash shell and rewrite the BAT 
file into a bash shell script. There's megatons of information on the 
web on how to write bash (or C, Bourne, Korn etc) shell scripts. Bash is 
the default Linux shell.
I use the O'Reilly book "Learning the bash Shell" personally.