I'm lost

[fripped]

I'm new to this enviroment and i'm trying to create a script that will produce a text file that has a list of the present working directory. I also have to have it run on auto execution. Does anyone have sugestions? I'm using Cygwin as my text editor.

[ProgramIt]

this should work for your script

#!/bin/bash
ls > output.txt

as for running on auto-execution I'm not sure what you mean. You can use a cron job to run the task every so often.

- John

[fripped]

O.K. that makes sense but i was told that bashrc will execute the file. How do i save the file and issue chmod and then bashrc?

[ProgramIt]

I'm not sure I completely understand your question. If you are asking how to put all of this together I can answer it.

1. Use a text editer to make the script. (i.e nano, pico, vi...)
2. After you save the script issue 'chmod 755 filename'
3. to run the script navigate to the directory where the script is stored and issue './filename' or you can fully qualify the path with '/path/folder/filename'

if you look at the script I posted the top line '#!/bin/bash' tells your program to use bash as it's interpreter. Not sure if that is what you were asking but hopefully it was.

- John

[matonb]

Sounds a bit like homework....

Anyway, have a look at the Startup Scripts section on this wikipedia page: Bash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, you'll find reference to bashrc there.