'batch' file for bash

[suthers]

I was wondering, is it possible to get make a batch file for bash?
Thanks in advance,

Jules

[bluecode]

It's called bash script, if that is what you meant...

[Brynet-Inc]

..or the more "vendor-neutral" term, a Shell Script.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_script

[JamesM]

Have you tried?

just doing

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my command1
my command2

inside a file then

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sh myfile

Will do the same as a batch file.

If you want to be better, add this at the top of your file:

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#!/bin/sh

then,

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chmod u+x myfile

Then you can just run it:

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./myfile

[suthers]

I tried using sh to execute a script but it always says command not found, does it need a different script from what i would normally use in bash?
Thanks in advance,

Jules

[inx]

I tried using sh to execute a script but it always says command not found

If you're not doing anything terribly complex, you won't need a different script for sh than bash. On a lot of Linux distributions, /bin/sh is linked to bash, anyway.

There's two possibilities for why you get a command not found on sh:
1) You're using MSYS or Cygwin and there is no special treatment of the scripting shell, so no sh link.
2) You're using an odd distribution that stuffed sh in /sbin and didn't include /sbin in your path.

In either case, just use bash instead of sh in the invocation.

[suthers]

Thanks inx that did it.
Jules

[inx]

np Glad I could help