{"id":1341,"date":"2017-04-18T20:55:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T20:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2017-04-22T10:23:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T10:23:01","slug":"create-an-amiga-script-and-run-it-from-shell-or-within-workbench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"Create an Amiga script and run it from shell or within Workbench"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open your favourite editor such as JanoEditor or if using Classic Workbench, right click on the Workbench background and choose new > script
\nDownload JanoEditor<\/a> or get JanoEditor from Aminet<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lets create a simple script that will exit after 3 seconds
\nType the following<\/p>\n

Echo This will close after 3 seconds\r\nwait 3 secs\r\nquit<\/pre>\n
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Once you have written your script, save it.<\/p>\n
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We need to make the script executable, locate the script in Workbench and right-click it and choose “Info”<\/p>\n
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Now click on the “Protection bits” TAB
\nMake sure that “Script” and “executable” are both ticked, and then click SAVE
\nYou will be asked to if you want to create an ICON, just click YES, you can change this later.<\/p>\n
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Your script will now run if you load the shell, navigate to its folder \/ drawer and run it by name.
\nThis will run the “myscript” script saved to the “RAM drive”.<\/p>\n
workbench:>ram:\r\nRam Disk:>myscript<\/pre>\n
If you want your script to execute in Workbench when you click on it, do the following.
\nRight click on the script and choose “Info”, then Under the Information Tab change the Default Tool: to iconX
\nPress ENTER after typing iconX, then choose SAVE
\nNow double-click your script and it will run.<\/p>\n
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Use iconmaster as an easy way to change your scripts icon.
\nDownload Here<\/a> or get it from aminet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Open your favourite editor such as JanoEditor or if using Classic Workbench, right click on the Workbench background and choose new > script Download JanoEditor or get JanoEditor from Aminet Lets create a simple script that will exit after 3 seconds Type the following Echo This will close after 3 seconds wait 3 secs quit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[297,339,337,338,105,96,303],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amiga","tag-amiga","tag-double-click","tag-execute","tag-run-from","tag-script","tag-shell","tag-workbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}