How to run a command from anywhere in user mode?

[Joshua Goi]

Hi all,

I have a bunch of commands from a software I just installed. I would like to run them from whichever directory I am in currently without cd-ing to that their directory to run them. And I would like to do it in user mode. Is it possible? How can it be done? Thanks!

[Pete Randall]

I'm not sure what you mean by user mode, but the way to run the commands is either to put the paths to the commands into your $PATH or specify the full path to your command. Alternatively, if these are all in the same directory, you can just use the "./command" syntax.


Pete

[Simon Hargrave · Accepted solution]

Add them to your path variable. If it's for certain users, edit their $HOME/.profile. If it's for everyone, edit /etc/profile

In either case, add something like this to the end: -

# Add MyApplication to search path
PATH=$PATH:/opt/myapplication/bin

[Franky_1]

Hi,

just add the specified path to your PATH Variable.
You can do this in /etc/profile (for all users) or in ~/.profile for selected user

Regards

Franky

[Rick Garland]

This is a job for the PATH environment variable. Can put into your $HOME/.profile to have in your environment, can put into /etc/profile for everybody, or you can put into /etc/PATH for system wide variable.

[Rodney Hills]

If you are reluctant to modify the PATH variable, you could set a variable to the path and include the variable when executing.

/etc/profile
export myapp=/opt/myapp/bin

$ $myapp/foo

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

You may run commands without full path if the path is included int the PATH variable. If the software is a "self made", install it in a directory which is included into PATH (/usr/local/bin, for example). Some standard and GNU installations put appropriate PATH into the file called /etc/PATH, which is read by the standard login procedure.

HTH

[Joshua Goi]

Thanks guys!