Quicker way of running terminal commands?

Hi,
I have a .sh file that I need to execute regularly. Up until now I have been opening up terminal and running code similar to this:
cd /
cd Applications
cd SimpleDesktop
bash sdesktop.sh
Wherupon the file would execute and JRE would take over. I have tried just bash then dragging the file into the terminal but that doesn't work; I have to change directories manually first for some reason.
What I would love to know if, through the wonders of OS X, there is a way of eliminating all that typing. If I could just click an icon and sdesktop.sh would launch it would be great.
The .sh file is desperate to open in TextEdit by default.
Help is much appreciated
Message was edited by: Rory Mercer

Everybody is going to scream.
I opened Automator. I selected Automator from the list of apps. This narrows it down to where you can see "run shell script". Drag that into the window on the right. I then pasted in the single line of text I had copied from a website that was discussing unmounting volumes. I think I left the pass setting as "to stdin". If you select the option to show action when run it will prompt you each time you run it. Now save as an application. Double click to run the app. In my case the app takes several seconds to run despite it being only one line, but maybe that's because the drive has to be put away before I see anything.
Okay, I have never done any thing at all with Automator before this, don't know anything about shell scripts, just know a few Unix shell commands. If you do anything with this that goes wrong I don't know you, have never heard of you, and I'll claim somebody hacked my computer and pretended to be me writing all this. On the other hand if it works I will bask in the glory of the multitude of blessings from you.
Seriously, back up your drive before you do this. I really am a novice and I know just enough to be dangerous.

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