Topic: Creating a shell script to make life easier in sme server

[animare]

Everytime I need to provision an ibay to work with drupal I need to run the following commands:

How would I write a script that I could run (maybe as an alias) to allow me to automatically do this. I can see that the only variable is ibayname. And I want the script to ask me to input the ibayname. I'm sure this is simple but I cannot figure out the correct way to do it.

# db accounts setprop ibayname PHPBaseDir /tmp/:/home/e-smith/files/ibays/ibayname
# db accounts setprop ibayname AllowOverride All
# db accounts setprop ibayname FollowSymLinks Yes
# signal-event ibay-modify ibayname

Thanks for any help

[Arnie]

Instead of getting the script to ask for the ibay name, pass the name as a commandline parameter, like this:

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drupal_setup <ibayname>
In the script, substitute $1 for the ibayname. for example:

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db accounts setprop $1 PHPBaseDir /tmp/:/home/e-smith/files/ibays/$1
Easy!