Need a little bit of help

[Chris Stewart]

I'm looking to create the equal to a cmd file to Windows in Linux. I want to use it to kick off my application on my Linux box. In Windows I've done this many times, looking something like this

set JAVA_HOME=C:/path/to/java
set CLASSPATH=C:/path/to/any/needed/jars
%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java %CLASSPATH% folder.classwithmain

That will kick off my application in Windows. Can anyone help me write something similar for Linux?

[Mike Curwen]

It's been a while since I wrote an .sh file, but this should get you started.

#
# setup environment
export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java 
export CLASSPATH=/path/to/any/needed/jars
PATH=$PATH:JAVA_HOME
#
# invoke the program
java -classpath $CLASSPATH  folder.classwithmain  

I suppose the export commands are not entirely necessary, since this is a starting script for a java program. hmm... how can you tell I don't work in Unix that much.