[cs615asa] hw3 invocations

[Rob Williams]

Vince,

Simply providing the shebang line (#!/bin/bash or #!/usr/bin/python,
for example) and doing a chmod +x on the script will allow it to run
as an executable, assuming it is in your PATH.

Rob

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Vincent <vlipoma at stevens.edu> wrote:
> Sorry for the inconvenience,
>
> The start instance command is invoked by "sh ec2-start-instance.sh -a" for
> the default AMI and "sh ec2-start-instance -a [ami]" for a specific ami. I
> re-read the man page and now I see the -a option was supposed to be
> optional. Running start instance as "sh ec2-start-instance.sh" will print a
> usage statement (as well as specifying a -h).
>
> ec2-backup is run by invoking "python ec2-backup.py -d [dir]" or "python
> ec2-backup.py -t backup -m rsync -d /"
>
> From what you describe you want the commands to run without using the
> keywords python and sh. Without a compiled binary, how can someone do this?
>
> Also, I realize I sent you a pdf file with my comments on the project. Would
> you prefer a plain text file?
>
> Sorry again,
> -Vincent
>
>
>
>
>
> On 3/24/2012 5:51 PM, Jan Schaumann wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The manual page suggested that your program should work exactly like
>> this:
>>
>>        ec2-start-instance -a ami-19a34270
>>
>> and
>>
>>        ec2-backup -d .
>>
>> or
>>
>>        ec2-backup -t backup -m rsync -d /
>>
>> If your command does not in fact work like that, please help me grade
>> your submissions and send me an email that contains the exact command(s)
>> you used to invoke your tool to backup a given directory and to start an
>> instance.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> -Jan
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