Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm just new here, looks like there is alot to read.


I need some help on a simple script that i would like to make, and I honestly have zero experience with shell scripts or anything, so i have no idea what I am doing.



I want to have a script that I can upload to to my webhosting account, and then login via shell and run the script.

I need the script to copy two files from different folders, to a folder that I input. Then I need it to rename the two files.

So basically, i need the script to ask me what folder i want it to copy the files to, then i type the folder i want, then it copys the files and renames them.


I tried making the script myself, but failed, no surprise there. Here is what i made, feel free to laugh

Code:

#!/bin/bash

echo -n "Choose your domain folder > "
read folder


mk dir $folder/cgi-bin

cp php/bin/php $folder/cgi-bin
cp php-4.3.0/php.ini-recommended $folder/cgi-bin

mv $folder/cgi-bin/php $folder/cgi-bin/php.cgi
mv $folder/cgi-bin/php.ini-recommended $folder/cgi-bin/php.ini

Any help would be appreciated.

It is mkdir
all one word

Other than that, if you have the paths right, it looks good.

ok i changed that,

it is saying ":bad interpreter: No such file or directory" when i try to execute the script.



I have tried /bin/bash, /usr/bin/bash, /bin/sh, /usr/bin/sh

nothing works.

Post the output from:
uname -a
which bash
which sh
which ksh
echo $SHELL
ps -f
cat /etc/shells

for that perticular problem,

Code:

mkdir -p  $folder/cgi-bin

Here are the results....this is driving me crazy.

uname -a
Linux sunset 2.4.29-grsec+w+fhs6b+gr0501+nfs+a32+++p4+sata+c4+gr2b-v6.189 #1 SMP Mon Feb 7 13:23:30 PST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

which bash
/bin/bash

which sh
/bin/sh


which ksh
/usr/bin/ksh

echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

ps -f
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
user 10611 32121 0 10:35 pts/6 00:00:00 -bash
user 17219 10611 0 10:38 pts/6 00:00:00 ps -f

cat /etc/shells
# /etc/shells: valid login shells
/bin/ash
/bin/csh
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/es
/usr/bin/ksh
/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/rc
/usr/bin/tcsh
/bin/tcsh
/usr/bin/zsh
/bin/sash
/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/esh
/bin/dash
/bin/bash
/bin/rbash
/usr/bin/screen
/etc/ftponly
/bin/ksh93

Then /bin/bash should have worked. The first line of a script must look exactly like this:
#! /bin/bash