Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all

New to scripting , what i am trying to do is that i have a directory called test which contains series of scripts which all begin with tst*.exe and i want to run all of them by a single script on a unix platform ...
i also want to issue a command against each one of the script as mentioned above...and output data file produced with .txt extension e.g. tst123.exe will produce 123.txt, tst345.exe will produce 345.txt...etc..


how can i do this...evrybit of help much appreciated ...thanks in advance...bindy

What shell are you planning to use? Also, is there an order in which you want to execute the scripts in the test directory? Are any of these scripts dependent upon another?

hi google

i was think of using #!/bin/sh shell script, the scripts within the test directory do not depend on each other,the scripts are the same but with different parameters and i want to able to recognise the output from each on of them, hence the name of each outpuit file (123.txt etc)...the scripts can be executed in any order ...

thanks again for the help...bindy

assuming that there are only 3 numbers in between test and .exe ... and assuming that this is not homework ...

Code:

#! /bin/ksh

for i in test*.exe
do
    inum=`echo $i | cut -c5-7`  
    $i > $inum.txt 2>&1
done

exit 0

Be sure to use a full path.

Code:

for i in full/path/to/script/test*.exe

hi just ice...

thanks, but no its not homewoirk, i am just bit rusty in scripting....

the test directory contains about 20 script files(*.exe each script has same commands but different embedded parameters in them ), i want a unix sh single script to run these scripts from the directory and issue a command which will generate output data file from each of the 20 scripts within the dir., and i want to able to recognise which data out put is from which script...(data file ends in *.txt file format)...hope it makes sense...waiting for response...thanks again...bindy

Code:

#! /bin/ksh

cd /script_dir
for script in test*.exe
do
    inum=`echo $script | cut -c5-7`  
    $script arg1 arg2 ... > $inum.txt 2>&1
done

exit 0