Re: QSH scripting

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Everything is set to go on the Oracle box side, and commands entered thru
> QSH actually worked as expected. The Unix programmer wants to build a
> script to be able to automate the process.

So it looks like things are working and ready to go, you just want a QSH
script to do them all for you.  If that is the case then you're all set.
QSH scripting is just like UNIX scripting.  Just put all the commands you
want to run in a file somewhere and then run the file.  For example, make
a text file using your text editor of choice with the following lines in
it:

#!/bin/sh
OLDDIR=`pwd`
NEWDIR='/home'
echo 'Changing to directory' $NEWDIR
cd $NEWDIR
pwd
ls
echo 'Changing back to directory' $OLDDIR
cd $OLDDIR
pwd
ls

Save this file as test.sh and put it on your as/400 in a directory like
/tmp.  Then make it executable by starting up QSH and doing:

chmod u+x /tmp/test.sh

Then execute the script:

/tmp/test.sh

You should see some nice output about it changing directories and some
lovely file listings.

Of you will want to make a file (script) that has the commands you use
from QSH to do your job.  Anything you type in QSH can be put in a script
and run.

James Rich

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