You gotta love it. Its as simple as hell and could actually be used to "merge" whatever tools you want together. I usually use it to run several spamming tools in the same command and stuff.

Here's how I use it to run multiple stuff:

files can be saved in any format, usually: no format, .sh or well I dunno.

then I open it in gedit, make variables(strings) pointing to where my tools are, ex:

then, I start running the stuff, i.e.:


Best thing about it is that you can run practically anything that your bash knows about.

I make it seem lame, but its actaully pretty handy .

Not lame at all... quite good actually. I do this with

PHP

  as well, but I put the shell command right up at the top and change the mod of the file so that is standalone executable ie:

#! /usr/local/bin/

php

 
<? include "/www/sites/myfile.

php

 " ?>

I've even got my own "run" command for

php

  scripts that I don't change the mod to - looks like this and works great:



... so that I can say "run myscript.

php

 "

/p

Perk, why not just "

php

  myscript.

php

 ". I use that syntax for testing but if I use a script enough from the command line it's add the shebang, "chmod +x myscript.

php

 " and "mv myscript.

php

  /usr/local/sbin/". I can of course then run it by just typing its name.

Can we have a subboard here for shell scripting Perk, I got a few interesting ones.

Cheers,
td 

Fair enough, subboard going up.

Regarding the other, I could very easily do that - but I like "run" - it's sort of 6502ish and makes me feel all warm and cuddly.  Also, I usually trick that out with things like not requiring the .

php

  on the end, adding other params for testing... this sort of thing. I change it up often.

Hey, like I've said many time "whatever floats your boat" is cool by me, we all got our own quirks.

Cheers,
td

Since I'm probably one of the youngest people that came into contact with shell scripting I think I deserve to ask a question :p .. Can I multithread or send out asynchronous calls to programs so that I can run my stuff in a parallel kinda way?

 

LOL, OK junior.



Start here
http:// tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/subshells.html

Example 20-3

HTH,
td

Great. Thanks a bunch!

Perk weighs in:

"Yup."

/p

screen is your friend

Computah says no...

Yeah, haven't played with it myself (I do the "nohup myscript &" thing mostly) but I've got a friend who swears by it and I've been meaning to take a look.

Cheers,
td