Assistance and Suggestions needed please...

[~Lexy~]

Okay, I'm a college student and I'm having a really hard time with our scripting lab. I was wondering if anyone had any sites to suggest me visiting that might help me with the following question:

"Create a script that will produce a text file that has a list of the files in the present working directory. Ensure you use the proper syntax to allow auto-execution from the command prompt. Use internal documentation (comments) to place your name and the course name in the script."

I've gotten the script to create the text file listing the files of the current directory, ls -a |tee AllFiles.txt, but getting it to include my name and course name in the script is where I get lost.

Any suggested sites would be greatly appreciated... Thanks.

[matonb]

Just a couple of hints.

echo "some text" > a.txt

Will create or overwrite the file a.txt, the file will only contain "some text"

echo "Some more text" >> a.txt

Will create or append the file a.txt, if you run both of those commands a.txt will contain

some text
Some more text

This is called redirection

Have a play, and you don't need anything more than to add some > and >>

[~Lexy~]

Thanks, the help is very much appreciated.




Well, I think I got that first part figured out. Now I'm off to work on the next part.