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Old 11-09-2008
Running cmds from a file

I specified in my file that all cmds are bash:

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#!/bin/bash

ls -l
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thats the file
how would i run that one command?
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Old 11-10-2008
Well, let's say the file is called myfile and it's in the current directory, first make sure it is executable (chmod u+x myfile) and then run it using ./myfile.

If it's in another directory just specify the full path, e.g. /some/dir/myfile.
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Old 11-10-2008
yep thanks ! Smilie
 
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