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How things are done, using bash to run simple command(s)? - ross - 2023-09-04
Good morning fine people of the Linux world.
Please, forgive me if I have posted this in the wrong section. Was not sure where to post.
This is just query. After a bit of searching about, I found a solution to something I was looking to achieve, which was to switch my monitor off by clicking on a shortcut/icon, so that at 3am when Im done watching whatever and Im half asleep, I dont have to reach over and switch the monitor off as one would usually do.
My solution, a fairly simple one. A bash script consisting of the following two lines.
#!/bin/bash
sleep 1 && xset dpms force off
Well my primitive understanding is that bash is a simple programming language, which seems rather overkill simply to run a terminal command from a shortcut. So my question is just about the way in which things are done.......have I reached the typical solution for such a desired result, or are there easier, more basic methods, to run terminal commands on demand/from shortcut, than to use bash
In Win, the typical solution would be a batch file, that is simply a list of commands to be ran.......and whilst my bash script is essentially the same thing, you are STILL having to elicit the use of programming language to do so. I just cant imagine theres not a lower level way of getting such a simple job done?
Hope you dont mind me asking such a dumb question. Thank you
Ross