Homework & Coursework Questions

Automation is about:
Or using abrevihations as everyone else:
KISS
Keep It Stupid & Simple

Or in other words, think what the user NEEDS, not what you think of.
Or give him lesser options, makes it easier to fetch available choices.

Example:

Code:

cd $HOME/KGS_HOME
mkdir -p Testing/{Beta,DLC,Indi}
mkdir -p Programming/{MainStory,SideStory,CharacterStats}
...
chmod 755 * -R

hth

EDIT:
Other than that, i (as well) have no idea what you talk about automation...
You list a bunch of folders, where is the automation in that?
What does your script do (other than creating folders)?

EDIT2:
Automation requires BRAIN v2.0 at least.
You (should) KNOW what you want to automate.... we cant help if we dont have enough data to evaluate from...

All I know is that my instructor never covered automating in my course. The course consisted of teaching me what it took to make the code I provided. Next thing I know this assignment came up. The first part of my post states the exact text copied and pasted from my teachers assignment list. I cannot give any more information then I already have because I have only been using Linux for 5 weeks now and I understand barely 5% of this assignment. All I know is that I need to automate the process of creating directories and folders along with soft links and error messages for an imaginary company I have named KGS. I think it is meant to be used to insure that every company computer has the directories set up the same way.

You will have to ask your instructor what he means, then.

I did ask him for more assistance, actually. Three times, to be exact. This first time he provided me with a link that brought me to a page that helped me understand automating slightly but didn't help me understand how to automate this assignment. After I realized that would not be enough for me to work with I contacted him again. This time he told me he already sent me a link and that if that wasn't enough for me then to research it on my own. I had been doing that previously and had by that point already created this thread as well. I then emailed him again stating that this was not enough help because I had called my student adviser for help, researched the topic, created this thread, and tried getting help from 4 of my peers, only one of whom would reply to me. That student was just as stuck as me. So here I am, having filed for an incomplete because I couldn't complete the assignment due to lack of understanding. I'm still trying to understand this automating stuff. I don't know how to set it up to check if the directories and files already exist or how to make error messages appear.

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To make it more clear, my instructor told me to file for an incomplete if I couldn't finish my assignment by the due date and that he had done all he could for me and to work with what I have, which is nothing but a thread where no one understands my assignment any better then I do and an assignment that I can't complete. Is there any one who can try to break down automating each part of my script bit by bit? I can't seem to grasp this topic at all and I need some simple descriptions of how this is all supposed to work.

"How to automate a script" depends on what needs to be automated in what way, the same way "how to write a script" depends on what you want to write to accomplish what end; so "automate" is as vague to us as it is to you. There isn't a secret hidden meaning we're intentionally hiding from you, and isn't a particular "automation" process to follow.

I'm guessing (but only guessing) that he wants you filling in things with variables from commandline parameters, instead of using hardcoded names. Template for what, to do what, in what way, remains a mystery.

Her might also mean feeding things into a script's stdin to fill out answers automatically. Or might not.

You can run your script on another computer by means of the ssh command ...

Now there's an answer that helps a lot. Thank you! This whole time I thought automating was something specific. That explains a lot for me. Is it possible to save script and run it elsewhere? How would I go about making my code an executable file, if that is even possible?

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How would I go about using that command?