how to make a file that will open specific things for you

zexter · 11-06-2004, 03:04 AM

how would i go about making a file that would open up a certain directory instead of me typing cd "directory" everytime i want to use that program?

-thanks in advance

n0xvb · 11-06-2004, 03:10 AM

You can create a script file that would do that for you.. Let's call this file

gothere

#!/bin/sh
#
#
cd /go/to/this/directory
#

That's it! Put whatever directory in that you want after the cd.
After you create this file, do this command:

chmod +x gothere

And if you want it to be available no matter what directory you are currently in, do something like this:

cp gothere /usr/bin/gothere

Cedrik · 11-06-2004, 07:04 AM

Or you could use your shell alias function, like in Bash :
alias myprogram="cd /path/to/your/directory; ./myprogram"

then you just type :
myprogram
to access the directory and execute 'myprogram' from here