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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Auto run script on USB device Post 302464321 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 19th of October 2010 07:32:49 PM
Old 10-19-2010
Will the computer your intending to run this from have a shell to execute your script? If not you will need to put a copy of the shell on the USB drive too.

Use autorun.inf:

Code:
[autorun]
open=ksh -c myscript
action=Invoke MyScript in ksh shell
icon=myscript.ico
label=My USB Application

Note: This is a popular way for viruses to propagate themselves, so a lot of computers are now setup to not autorun USB devices. This may mean you user will still need to manually start the script so it's probably best to put a shortcut that does that for them (eg Setup.lnk or Install.lnk).
 

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times(1)							   User Commands							  times(1)

NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh times ksh times DESCRIPTION
sh Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell. ksh Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell. On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways: 1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes. 2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments. 3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort. 4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari- able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not performed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 times(1)
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