I am using a shell script named by test.sh, for example containing
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If I put it in folder temp1, and run test.sh, then it will give me the address of the current directory. But if I am now in folder temp2, and I want to run test.sh, I always need to copy test.sh to folder temp2, and then run it. Is there a way that I can run test.sh without copying it? I am not root user.

There is no basic difference between your script and any system script, except that it IS yours.

Check your environment variable PATH. IF your home is /home/mine and there is a string ;/home/mine/bin in your PATH, then put your script there and you can then execute it from anywhere. If that folder does not exist, create it with mkdir. (Make sure it is not writeable by group or world, this is JUST for you!)

To check your path, try "echo $PATH".
If said folder is NOT in your path, we can discuss how to modify a profile or rc file for you to add it properly. (The location to do that is somewhat shell specific, and you did not say which shell you run.)

The other locations in your path are locations where the system adds programs or scripts for some or all users to run. If you do not want EVERYONE on a machine to be able to run your script, NEVER put it in one of those folders. There is an obvious converse: if you want EVERYONE to have access, drop it in one of those places. (Most commonly, /usr/local/bin. /bin and /usr/bin are somewhat reserved for system and installed repo software that are maintained, rather than locally produced.)

I hope that this helps. Let me know if I was not clear.

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Thanks for helping me. The output the folder I want to run shell script is
The computer c15-0330-01.ad.mtu.edu belongs to campus. I am trying to copy qgenscript.sh to /usr/kerberos/sbin (although I do not who is kerberos). I got
I also did
Where zwang10 is my user name.
There is no error when copy qgenscript.sh to /home/campus27/zwang10/bin.
But when I want to apply shell script to another folder, I got
About which shell I am using

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Probably means you don't have write perms on the dir

Its not entirely clear what you mean by
or where you are trying to run it from, but fyi it is possible to have a disk partition mounted as 'noexec'; this means it is not possible to execute anything residing on that partition.

HTH

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The ./ at the begining of the command means the script must be in your current working directory. If you are not in /home/campus27/zwang10/bin when executing this, it's not going to work. So (since /home/campus27/zwang10/bin is in your $PATH) just leave out the ./ and you'll be fine.

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kerberos is a network authentication protocol. Not sure what you are trying to accomplish but I doubt you have write permissions to directories other then your home which I assume is /home/campus27/zwang10/. As stated you can run your program other then the current working directory if it resides in your path environment.

If you copy your script to /home/campus27/zwang10/bin then you can run it from anywhere by just typing in the command
qgenscript

If the script is located in a directory not in your path environment then you can run it from that directory by using the command
./qgenscript

The . is a shortcut for current working directory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_28protocol%29

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try typing in any folder.
You have the script in yoru home bin, and that IS in your execution path. You should be able to call it now, but (as mentioned above) not with the ./ prefix.

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