Running a command from anywhere

tez · 02-24-2004, 11:27 PM

Hi all,

Running Slackware 9.1, and havesetup the sudoers file to allow shutdown for all users.

How can I get it so I can type shutdown in any directory (logged in as a user) and it being able to run instead of changing to /sbin to run it?

Thanks

Demonbane · 02-24-2004, 11:31 PM

Put /sbin in your path, or just make an alias in your bash profile.
eg

Code:

alias shutdown='/sbin/shutdown'

tez · 02-24-2004, 11:34 PM

Hi,

Fellow Sydney nix user

Where do I put that in? where's the file?

Demonbane · 02-24-2004, 11:41 PM

Good to see fellow Aussie Linux users around here :-)
It depends on the distro, but ~/.bash_profile for per user setting and /etc/profile for system wide should work most of the time.
If it worked you should see it when you type "alias".

tez · 02-27-2004, 09:54 PM

So if I dont have a bash_profile or bashrc, when I create one, what do these need to contain?

Demonbane · 02-27-2004, 10:07 PM

something like

Code:

#!/bin/bash
                                                                                
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi

alias shutdown='/sbin/shutdown'