Here at work we use an old SCO UNIX system for some of the day to day operations. To make my role as desktop support a little faster I was hoping to write a script that would kill all of the TTYs ...

It's not hard to create and run a shell script in Linux distros like Ubuntu, but there are a few non-obvious pitfalls you need to avoid. Here's a quick example of how to execute a script in Linux.

Unlike shell scripts on Unix systems, batch files are run by typing their names without their extensions. So to run a batch file named mapdrive.bat, you would type only “mapdrive”.