running Angband with one command

jaakkop · 07-15-2005, 09:31 AM

When playing Angband, I need to go to the directory where it's located and do the command ./angband. Can I somehow just play it with one command, like typing command angband <enter> and it starts? Distro is Slackware and Angband was compiled from source.

csb · 07-16-2005, 10:02 AM

There are many ways to do this, I'll try to explain a few, first you can type the directory and filename like so...

Code:

/home/you/wherever/it/is/installed/angband

or you can make a symbolic link

Code:

[cs@cacuts ~]$ln -s /home/you/wherever/it/is/installed/angband pie

so whenever you are at your home diretory, all you have to type is ./pie. ln will make symbolic link (think 'shortcut' in windows)

Code:

ln -s [file to link to] [file to be the link]

In your home directory, there is a file named .profile
(yours will look different, but something like mine)

Code:

[cs@cactus ~]$cat .profile
PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games:.
export PATH HOME TERM
PS1="[\u@\h \W]\$"

note the "PATH=" line
It is a list of directories, all seperated by the ":". When you type 'ls' the shell looks for the ls program in all thoese directories. So you could change your PATH= to

Code:

PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games:/home/you/wherever/it/is/installed/:.

This seems to be the solution that fits how you want to run your game the best.

jaakkop · 07-16-2005, 10:50 AM

Got it now. Made a small shell script.