shell scripting, just running commands

can this be done very easily?

[Clark]

Hi,

I don't know much about scripting. I wrote a shell script that started with

#/bin/somethingorother/sh

and I basically used someone else's code and figured out how to get done what I need done. But now I'm starting from scratch and this is what I want to do from the command line, but put into a file and run in a cron job:
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Date >>/filename.txt
grep something /path/to/file -c >>/filename.txt
grep something /path/to/file >>/filename.txt

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Can someone tell me how to do this in unix?
Thanks!

[Brett_Tabke]

Well, you call it simply with the name on the command line. As for the cron part, that's also fairly easy to do. There are quite a few good back cron threads:

[google.com...]

[bird]

Your example looks fine and should basically work as given.

The only thing to add to Bretts comments is that you first need to give execute rights to your script file, so that the system knows that it is allowed to execute it:

$> chmod a+x yourscriptfile