A quick example

Having learned a basic set of UNIX commands you will almost certainly soon discover that you want to repeat sequences of them. To do this:-

• Create a file that contains the commands you want to repeat. For example the file my_commands could contain:-

  cd /home/west/work
  ls -l *

• Change protection on the file so that it can be executed:-

  chmod +x my_commands

• To execute the commands just type the file name:-

  ./my_commands

  The leading ./ is there to make sure that the system finds your command - it only looks in certain directories unless the command has a directory component.