How to write shell scripts in Sun Solaris?

Question

I am new to Unix shell scripting. So can anybody help me?

How to write shell scripts in Sun Solaris? How to run/execute the script?

Please post in detail.

Solution 1

• create script file, first row beginning with this: #!/bin/sh -
• add script body (echo Hello world) on following lines after that.
• make script executable (chmod u+x scriptfile)
• either put scriptfile somewhere in your path, or invoke it by its pathname.

./scriptfile is the relative pathname if your current directory is where you put the script.

Solution 2

It is not very different from writing a shell script in Linux. Some pitfalls:

• Relying on GNU tools, but not installed (sed, awk, grep -r etc.)
• Path names (if you use bash, prefix all your scripts with #!/usr/bin/env bash

I suggest you to read http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html.

Comments

[coderlearner]

i have very good skills in C++ language

[chunkyb2002]

Shell scripting is very different to c++ so the learning curve might be quite steep. Check out freeos.com/guides/lsst its aimed at Linux OS's but the principles are largely the same.

[user9517]

This is outside the scope of server fault. A common shell to script in is bash - you can find an introduction to bash scripting here