Just written my first couple of scripts. Simple one liners to sshfs to my Mepis desktop but just about worth doing a little script for to save remembering paths etc. __{{emoticon}}__

That's what makes the shell so powerful, being able to automate things.

Share your script. Someone else may enjoy it.

Quite willing to share! It really is just a one liner!

#!/bin/bash
sshfs <user>@host:/home/<user> /home/<user_on_local_host>/remote-home

So, on the local machine, there's a directory called remote_home in my home directory which gets the remote directory mounted on it. Save the script as remote_home & make it executable & your off! Note the directory is called remote<dash>home & the script remote<underscore>home to differentiate a bit...

rich_c wrote:Quite willing to share! It really is just a one liner!

Maybe just a simple one liner but someone may see it and think"what if I just......". The big light will suddenly come on and bingo there willingly using the shell.

I remember feeling over the moon when I wrote my first script (it wasn't that long ago, I'm still very much a noob at it) and it worked.

Maybe we should have a thread to share scripts?

anticapitalista wrote:Maybe we should have a thread to share scripts?

Great idea!

OK, I dug through my Linux books and produced a much more polished (IMHO) version suitable for general use! Have a look at:
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That's great rich_c. You could take even further if you like and use Zenity to do it graphically.

Will have to look into that! Sounds like the next logical step!

"man zenity" will show you all the variables. Just for a look run:
a sneak peek of what it will do.