UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello everyone. I am new to writing scripts and I am trying to figure out how to get it to work on a unix system. I am currently using windows xp to write my scripts. My questions are:
1. If the scripts are writtin in Wordpad, what do I save them as before converting them on unix?

2. After ftp'ing the weekday.scr I have to unix using this line :
" dos2unix Weekday.scr Weekdayunix.scr"
I get the problem:
"problems converting"
So is there something Im doing wrong?

Thanks guys. If you need any other information, i will gladly supply it. I just wanna figure this stuff out so I am more comfortable with unix. Thanks again!

Notepad is be a better choice than Wordpad. I remember Wordpad saves the file as RTF by default. You need to manually change the file type to .txt when saving.

Shell script usually uses ".sh" suffix. ".scr" would easily mix up with screen saver files in Windows.

"dos2unix" directly convert the files in the argument. You don't need to specify the output file.

This does not look like homework to me, but for some reason you chose to post in this sub forum. For this sub forum and generally homework or classrom task, the rule down there applies (for your future posts!). Though I let the thread open and move it to another sub forum.

Do not post classroom or homework problems in the main forums. Homework and coursework questions can only be posted in this forum under special homework rules.

Please review the rules, which you agreed to when you registered, if you have not already done so.

More-than-likely, posting homework in the main forums has resulting in a forum infraction. If you did not post homework, please explain the company you work for and the nature of the problem you are working on.

If you did post homework in the main forums, please review the guidelines for posting homework and repost.

Thank You.

The UNIX and Linux Forums.

Another option alternative to dos2unix is using texpad instead of notepad, where you can save in unix format. But when migrating files from windows is always a good procedure to do dos2unix.