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Jody Zung wrote:
> 
> Hi folks. I'm new to writing shell scripts in unix so maybe someone
> could help me out here.

I'm going to assume that you mean Bourne shell scripts.  (/bin/sh)

I recommend that you get a good book on the subject. Portable Shell
Programming by Blinn is my favorite.

> I'm lookin to run some automated test cases. What I need to do is run a
> process and output the results. Actually there is more I need to do but
> I need to walk before I can run.
> 
> So basically it'll look like this.
> 
> I have a process called OMC that I run on a file. There are options as
> well, so a command from the unix prompt would look like this:
> 
> omc  -dtmlckf -o <output dir> <filename.lib>
>
> Then the thing runs for a while and ouputs a huge amount of stuff.
> After this I want to check the output directory for the correct files.
> 
> So i'll cd to the output directory, do an ls, or ll and visually check
> for the needed files.
> 
> Is there a way i can do all of this in a script and output to a results
> file??
> 
> thanks in advance.

#!/bin/sh

omc  -dtmlckf -o /some/dir filename.lib >/tmp/savedoutput 2>&1
(cd /some/dir && ls -la) >>/tmp/savedoutput 2>&1

exit

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