[TriLUG] Single line scripts

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

      Going on a tangent, what are you trying to accomplish? Depending
on what you are trying to do, have you considering remotely sending
the commands using ansible, expect, or even plain old ssh+bash
(http://unixwars.blogspot.com/2015/12/remotely-controlling-esxi-with-bash-and.html
for an example)?

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Steve Litt via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Sep 2016 15:34:52 -0400
> Grawburg via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> I have long commands I enter in a terminal, such as starting
>> connecting to a Raspberry Pi located several floors away with ssh, or
>> setting up a connection to my NAS (rather than having a line
>> in /etc/fstab). I can simply have a text file saved and do a copy and
>> paste into terminal each time I need it, but I'd like to turn it into
>> a what I would have called a .bat file decades ago.
>
> The term you're looking for is "shellscript", and although they
> can have any file extension, but ".sh" is idiomatic.
>
>
>> Is this something
>> I should learn to to do in bash?
>
> Yes. Definitely. Running a shellscript is far superior to opening a file
> and pasting a command onto the command line.
>
>> I don't need multiple lines, there
>> is no extra coding, just a single line.
>
> If these shellscripts will be simple, this becomes an excellent use
> case for UMENU2:
>
> http://troubleshooters.com/projects/umenu2/
>
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>
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