Comments on: Writing a Basic Ubuntu Script

By: rasool maleki

rasool maleki — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:17:52 +0000

Thanks a lot

By: tom

tom — Wed, 18 May 2011 05:32:48 +0000

thanks i managed to make a script to install codeblocks
then run it

By: rossi

rossi — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:05:34 +0000

Good introduction. I am migrating from Dos .bat to Ubuntu, it helped me getting started.
Some of the comments show why it’s difficult to get easy solutions in the diverse world of Unix. A lot of Unix insiders assume you have to get to their level of understanding first, before you might do anything useful.

By: Grandfather Time

Grandfather Time — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:40:44 +0000

Sergey, your problem is that you are not running the script from the terminal, you are simply opening a text file….

If you are using Ubuntu you need to click Applications –> Accessories –> Terminal

Now that your terminal is open, type:
chmod 755 samplescript.sh
and then hit enter.

This sets permissions for the script so that only you can write to the file, while still letting all users read and execute it.

While still in your terminal, type:

./samplescript.sh

to run the script.

By: youssef

youssef — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:50:57 +0000

I have aproblem with application called Opmanager
when I run it and I closed the terminal the process for this application stoped I run it in Background but the same problem still persist what can I do?
thanks

By: Sergey

Sergey — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:31:44 +0000

Hi,
I followed your tutorial.
Saved the samplescript.sh file to the desktop and when I click on it it is not starting Firefox.
It is starting the gedit text editor with following text:
#!/bin/sh
echo “welcome”
firefox

By: jake

jake — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:51:34 +0000

great – short and sweet!

By: Chase

Chase — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:49:41 +0000

suppose i wanted it to run at start up. My goal is to start up two virtual machines when the computer starts up.

By: Gaurav Sood

Gaurav Sood — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:34:15 +0000

Great tutorial!!!

By: Vasyl

Vasyl — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:08:39 +0000

Thank you, great post. But I still have questions…

Is it possibly to create in Ubuntu something like HTA-application (in Windows)? I need to create some window, process data (if possibly by using JavaScript) and display result as HTML.

What can be as replacement for
ActiveXObject(“WScript.Shell”)
ActiveXObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
ActiveXObject(“Msxml.DOMDocument”)?