I would like to write files that when opened open a terminal window and perform a series of commands, the reason for this is I want to eventually schedule them to run hourly, daily etc, and some of which I want to eventually run as background processes (data mining) continually.
I'm really sorry in advance if I am difficult to understand here, I am very amateur as far as computer science and programming is concerned, so I am just describing my objectives as best as I can without knowing the formal terminology.
