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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Yingjun He <hey@tuns.ca>
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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Yingjun He wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Anyone knows how to run batch jobs in FreeBSD system? Thank you!

Just write a shell script. The #! line is at the top of the file.  

#!/bin/sh

command1
command2
command3

Make it executable by running `chmod +x scriptname'.

Then run it by typing ./scriptname.

Hope this helps.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major