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Shell Scripting (Was Re: [LIH] at problem)



"Lakshmi B. G." wrote:
> What do you mean by /bin/sh?

The shell which normally resides in the /bin directory.

> I have created a small file called l.txt which has simple 2 statements
> 
> /bin/sh
> cd /usr/local

To do what u want to do do:

	#!/bin/sh
	cd /usr/local

This says that one should use /bin/sh to interpret the remaining part of
the script.

Refer to Stephen Prata's "Advanced Unix - A Programmer's Guide" for lots
of useful stuff on shell programming. Cheap and good book.

sachin