Shell Programming and Scripting

$ # First setup a script
$ echo "ls
> df" > simple
$ # "cat simple" is now a program that returns a script
$ cat simple
ls
df
$

$ # This method works, but is ugly and needs write access to somewhere
$ cat simple > /tmp/somefile
$ . /tmp/somefile
< output of ls and df >
$ rm /tmp/somefile
$ 
$ # I want to do something like this:
$ `cat simple`
ls: cannot access df: No such file or directory
$ # Only it doesn't work

$ cat simple
ls
df
$ sh simple
< output of ls and df >
$

 myscript="df;ls"; eval $myscript