opening a program from shell
 

i am unable to open some programs without cd-ing into the directory concerned. what shall be done to open a program directly from the shell whichever the pwd is?
thanking you

Create a symlink to the file in /usr/local/bin. Like so

Either that or type the full path to the executable.

/usr/bin/executable

put program directory in your path

put this in your .bash_profile

PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
PATH=/path/to/directory:$PATH

whereis is your friend, also.

whereis program_name

Then just cut and paste the whole path.

thanks a lot for your replies.. it is fine now