help on scripting

[l_jubin]

can any body tell me the basics of scripting in linux.

[Dolda2000]

That really depends on what language you want. There are many; a few are shell scripting, perl, scheme and python.
I'm guessing that what you want is shell scripting. I'm in quite a hurry right now, so I can't describe it all, but create a file, begin it with a single line which reads "#!/bin/sh", and chmod it to 755 to make it executable. Then just anter the commands, one per line. There are conditional commands and all, see man bash or info bash.

[genlee]

I suggest reading the bash scripting howto at any of the linux doc sites.

[wassy121]

or you can always read through other scripts that other people wrote. try `file /usr/bin/* | grep Bourne` This will show you all the bash scripts in that directory. Mmm . . . bash.