OK. Now for a really dumb question. Do I write the scripts in an editor, or from the command line or what? In DOS, you used an editor and named it with an .bat extension. I would suspect you would do some sort of chmod ??? filename, then run it with a ./file.sh? Harry G On Tuesday February 05 2002 02:12 pm, you interfaced in analog form:
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 19:59, Harry G wrote:
I want to write the equivalent of DOS batch files for simplifying backups using tar, and doing a few other things. How is this done in Linux using
check out the Advanced Bash Scripting HowTo, probably located here (on a standard SuSE installation: /usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO
those shellscripts are a very easy way to getting stuff done automagically... but they're pretty powerful as well...
Hansen