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20 Nov 2010, 3:58 am

Does anyone on this forum now how to execute command from a shell script. I know the basic CLI stuff. adduser, removing/creating files etc. But i cannot find a good website for basic bash shell script punctuation. Once i have typed the header: #!/bin/bash I don't know how to tell the script the next line is a command, i.e lpr test.vt etc. Can anyone help with this?

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20 Nov 2010, 12:13 pm

You don't need to:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
lpr test.vt

If it's not a BASH keyword then it's assumed to be an external command.

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

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20 Nov 2010, 12:41 pm

jamiethesilent wrote:

By Zubuntu, don't you mean Xubuntu?

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22 Nov 2010, 3:27 am

Yes. Its just it is just I heard it pronounced like that so I spellt it like that.

I have made my first few scripts. Playing with rad and test commands. Can anyone pint me (so to speak) to a good text based web browser?

James.

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22 Nov 2010, 11:40 am

jamiethesilent wrote:

But i cannot find a good website for basic bash shell script punctuation.

This guide to Bash and scripting is good - http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/

You can also type "man command" into Google to get useful help about Bash commands, and sometimes easier than in the terminal (and in the terminal, use "/string" to search for a "string" in within man pages).

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22 Nov 2010, 12:22 pm

jamiethesilent wrote:

Can anyone pint me (so to speak) to a good text based web browser?

Elinks is the best, I think.

sudo aptitude install elinks

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