What do you call it when you make a bat file in linux.. as in make a simple command that runs a series of commands.

Basically I would like to make a file that simply runs a series of commands one after the other and takes a variable.

for example that runs from the terminal, and can run from anywhere like the other terminal commands,

this is not an area that i have much experience in, but hopefully having some terminology will help you run some searches. i have heard them called either just scripts or shell scripts. i wrote this very rudimentary one to run an rsync command:
from my admittedly limited understanding the first part (#!/bin/bash) is called a shebang and is necessary to tell your system what shell will be used to run the script (i have also seen python used). bodhi (as with many linux systems) uses bash by default. the rest is just a regular command that i could have run in a terminal.

you can write that in just a regular text file and save it with whatever you want to name your script/command. i have seen some people name theirs with a .sh extension, but i don't know if that is mandatory or just suggested or even necessary.

once it is created, you need to make it executable with chmod. after that you can click it's icon in the gui to run it. getting it to run
may be a bit more tricky depending on what you mean by anywhere, but those are pretty much the basics that i know.

In Linux lingo, what you want to do is write a "script."

A web search for "linux scripting howto" will turn up many links and tutorials.

My personal favorite, though, is Machtelt Garrels's BASH Guide for Beginnners. It hasn't been updated since 2008, but BASH hasn't changed much since then, and it's very well written.

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Great, thanks guys.

this was just posted as well.