Simple script to do some tasks

[ranjitcool]

Hello Guys,

I never scripted in linux but want to write a script to do the following.

1. mount /dev/cdrom to mnt and untar a tarball to /root
2. remove a rpm package with nodeps option
3. go to /root/tardirectory and do a ./install.pl -default
4. remove the tardirectory

now i do these manually but to automate this into a script, how do i do that? write a shell script? or in perl?

please advice, this is for a rhel machine, but rarely we also load ubuntu machines so may be perl might be a good option to write the script?

Thanks
RJ

[zackwasa]

You can make it as a simple script in bash:

#!/bin/bash

put all the commands here

You will then need to make the script executable and that's it