opening a program from shell

hari78 · 03-08-2005, 06:06 AM

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

cs-cam · 03-08-2005, 06:10 AM

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

Code:

ln -s /path/to/executable /usr/local/bin/executable

Boow · 03-08-2005, 08:38 AM

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

Gecko · 03-08-2005, 08:40 AM

whereis is your friend, also.

whereis program_name

Then just cut and paste the whole path.

hari78 · 03-08-2005, 10:33 AM

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