[SOLVED] my own script related question!

anon297 · 04-22-2018, 11:59 PM

Dear mentors!

I posted a question on LFS forum and this is slightly different one.

I know how to make my own script(for easy tasks only) and use it with './something.sh', but if I want to use it as something like coreutils($cp, $ls like that), how can I achieve that?

I mean, If I want to use my own function with just
$my_own_1 -e 'blah blah'

how can I do that? Do I have to make my script in '/bin' directory? or export my function? or alias my function with execute script?

Thanks for your reading and your help!

ondoho · 04-23-2018, 12:11 AM

you want to call the script without having to type out its path?
then it should be stored in your PATH!

Code:

echo $PATH

if "$HOME/bin" is already in it, that's where your script should go. symlink or copy, doesn't matter (in principle).
if not, do this as a normal user:

Code:

mkdir ~/bin

and add this line to whatever file your login shell parses first:

Code:

PATH="$HOME/bin${PATH+:}${PATH}"

(it's ~/.bash_profile on my system, but this varies!)

anon297 · 04-23-2018, 12:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

you want to call the script without having to type out its path?
then it should be stored in your PATH!

Code:

echo $PATH

if "$HOME/bin" is already in it, that's where your script should go. symlink or copy, doesn't matter (in principle).
if not, do this as a normal user:

Code:

mkdir ~/bin

and add this line to whatever file your login shell parses first:

Code:

PATH="$HOME/bin${PATH+:}${PATH}"

(it's ~/.bash_profile on my system, but this varies!)

Awesome!!! Thanks really helped me a lot!!