OK, here's what I've got: #!/bin/bash
qy | lynx "https://secureweb.ucdavis.edu:443/cgi-auth/sendback?"\ "http://email.ucdavis.edu/news/news-succeed.html"\ -force_secure -accept_all_cookies -auth="login:password" > /dev/null When I enter the file name at the command line I get this message: /home/katie/bin/runtin: line 3: qy: command not found and I'm back to the command line. How do I fix this? --- Samuel Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > #!bin/bash > > In addition to Bill's remarks below, this line needs to be > #!/bin/bash > That is, an absolute path (starts with slash) rather than a relative > one. --- Bill Kendrick wrote: > > Oops - Yes, indeed. The ";"s tell the shell that the next thing is > > another command. > > What I think you want are "\" (back-slashes), which tell the shell > > 'the stuff on the following line should be considered to be part of > > this one single command (or set of commands)'. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech