What's a script?

[Al Black]

Hey Mark,

On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 22:37 +0000, Mark C. Miller wrote:
> I'm a newbie and know nothing about programming.  Here's a line I grabbed 
> from another thread ...

Just one minor thing to what the others have said about scripts.  Don't
forget to "comment" your scripts.  For example I'll often put in
comments about the command or the rationale for doing it the way I did.
For example I might do something like this for copying files ... in
script...

# copy files to destination, but only when new or newer

cp -u *.* to /home/al/somedirectory ...


You see that comments explains why I used the -u option for the command
"cp".

Hope this helps,

al