Run text file as commands in Bash

Blainer picture Blainer · Mar 22, 2012 · Viewed 116k times · Source

If I have a text file with a separate command on each line how would I make terminal run each line as a command? I just don't want to have to copy and paste 1 line at a time. It doesn't HAVE to be a text file... It can be any kind of file that will work.

example.txt:

sudo command 1
sudo command 2
sudo command 3

Answer

Chaos picture Chaos · Mar 22, 2012

you can make a shell script with those commands, and then chmod +x <scriptname.sh>, and then just run it by

./scriptname.sh

Its very simple to write a bash script

Mockup sh file:

#!/bin/sh
sudo command1
sudo command2 
.
.
.
sudo commandn