script creation questions

[emorrp1]

I can help you with basic script creation, just not quite sure how you'd get it to do what you want over ssh. I assume you're familiar with the terminal, which by default uses the bash shell environment for you to type in your commands. A bash script has several properties:

1) the file is executable, use

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chmod u+x myscript

2) the first line tells you what program will run it, in this case the shell:

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#!/bin/sh

3) the rest of the file contains a list of commands to run, one per line e.g:

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ls -l ~/Documents
echo "shameless plug"
apt-cache show mintupload
touch temp.txt
echo "hello world!" >> temp.txt
cat temp.txt
rm temp.txt

to run the script:

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./myscript

To learn more, google for "shell scripting"