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aaron.kilbride

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Registered: 2009-08-25

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running a script

so i'd like to do the tmpfs thing for firefox but i was wondering... what exactly does it mean by run the script? do i create a file? i was always quite confused on what that meant

in essence how do i run a script?

Last edited by aaron.kilbride (2009-12-04 00:53:45)

graysky

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Re: running a script

Yeah, I wrote that wiki page and it's a nice tweak.  A script is just a text file (BASH script in this case).  It's like a DOS batch file (.bat) you're perhaps familiar with?  You need to make it executable as the wiki page states:

$ chmod a+x /path/to/tmpfs_firefox.sh

To run it, you simply call it:

$ /path/to/tmpfs_firefox.sh

Last edited by graysky (2009-12-04 01:09:56)

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perbh

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Registered: 2005-03-04

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Re: running a script

... -or-
you run it in a subshell:
sh /path/to/tempfs_firefox.sh

Personally I prefer the latter - don't really like to have executables splattered around ... but each to his or her own ... both are equally valied

Gen2ly

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Re: running a script

If you want to set up script environment (i.e. run scripts like regular commands from the terminal), I wrote a post about it, Setting Up a Scripting Environment.

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