How to Write Your First ksh Script in UNIX

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When you login into UNIX, you are first be in the home directory:

$/home:

Then you can issue 

$/home: cd jthomas

Then you come to your own directory:

$/home/jthomas:

How to write your first script:

$/home/jthomas: vi test.sh

Here, you can write your script.

The first line in the script is:

#!/bin/ksh  - It denotes which shell you are going to use.

Example:

$vi test.sh #!/bin/ksh ################################################### # Written By: Jason Thomas # Purpose: This script was written to show users how to develop their first script ################################################### # Denotes a comment
root
daemon bin sys adm uucp nobody lpd

How to run script
$ sh test.sh

Also read: The complete list of UNIX basic commands