Help with a Bash script

Michael Thompson maverickapollo at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 8 15:43:26 UTC 2010


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On 08/04/10 16:29, Adalbert Prokop wrote:
> Am 08.04.2010 17:06, schrieb Michael Thompson:
> 
> Hi!

> 
> Well, if your list of commands already is a script, then including it 
> would be the most convenient method.
> 
> Let's say your list is called "script" then
> 
> . <path_to_script>
> 
> would do it...

Thats exactly the thought I came up with after sending the mail.

> 
> In other case here is a small executor script which reads your file line 
> by line and executes it:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # file: executor
> while read line; do
> 	echo Executing: "$line"
> 	eval "$line"
> done < "$1"

Thats exactly what I needed.

> 
> If you start the executor with your file as the first parameter, it will 
> execute the lines one by one.
> 
> # ./executor script
> 

Many thanks for your help there, much appreciated.

- -- 
Michael
http://maverickapollo.wordpress.com
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