UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am sure someone will yell at me over this post, but honestly I have searched. It doesn't help that I am not sure what to search on.

Little background. Working at new company, Company has a program on a Unix box AIX.4. I know virtually nothing about Unix and Neither does anyone else here So I am working on learning along with my other job responsibilities. But learning Unix is secondary for now.

Issue is that I have been tasked with the following: Writing a DOS script that does a series of events. one of those events is to open the 'Terminal Emulator/Multiview ' window and run a pre-saved script file or a series of actions so the program can export a file which later in the script will be ftp'd and imported else where.

Is there any assistance that can be offered?

Thank you

If you're relatively new to AIX, try out The AIX Survival Guide - it is an excellent read and very informative for people just starting out in the OS.

As for scripting, you should try Classic Shell Scripting [O'Reilly].

Good luck!