Hello,

I have problems writing to the onboard SD card reader, such as described: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=19216

I would like to try something, but I am new to Linux. Is there a script similar to what you can do with DOS batch files that I could run to do the following:

Copy a quantity of files from a temp directory to the SD card; log this to a results file
Copy the temperature to the results file via acpi -V
Delete the copied files from the SD card
Repeat the above process 100 times

This would provide a log of if this an intermittent problem that only occurs at higher temperatures.

Can anyone here help me with this script?

Something likewhere the temp directory is /directory/temp, the sd card is mounted at /media/sdcard, and your results and script are in /home/evbrown (all probably need to be changed), and your scripts is named script.sh.

The >> tells bash/csh/whatever to write to end of file, so you can use that to log pretty much anything.

The last line just calls the script again. May want to do something different so it doesn't run forever.

Kool!

So if I wanted this to run for 100 iterations, would the code look like?

for(i=0;i<100;i++)
do
/home/evbrown/script.sh
done

The script.sh would be as you coded above, except I would need to remove the last line:
/home/evbrown/script.sh

Do I have the syntax correct?

Looks like the for syntax (I don't use it much) is like this for countsIf I remember right, the double parenthesis means evaluate.

Other than that, just 2 things to remember. Put #!/bin/bash at the beginning of both files, and chmod +x to make them executable.

Great. Thank you!