Execute a shell file from anywhere

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I can open my Arduino and Android Studio IDE irrespective of my current path by these commands

 ~/arduino/./arduino 
 ~/android/./studio

I've created aliases for both of them on my .bashrc file and its working fine.

I want to know if there is a more efficient way of solving this kind of problems?

The way you do it is completely fine. I guess you have `alias myopen=vi ~/arduino...`? — fedorqui, Jun 10 '15 at 12:59
try `export PATH="/bin:/sbin:/home/USERNAME/arduino:$PATH"` then `source ~/.bashrc` now you will be able to execute your script from anywhere don't forget to `chmod 770 yourscript` — auth private, Jun 10 '15 at 13:19

skrtbhtngr · Answer 1 · 2015-06-10T13:04:43.280

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~ represents you home directory in your system. That is why you can open those programs from anywhere. But, if you login as another user, this won't work as ~ would then represent to that user's home directory.

If you want you can replace ~ by /home/<yourUsername> (the absolute path to your home directory) or even /root depending upon your installation settings.

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answered Jun 10 '15 at 12:58

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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You can add folders to your users path variable in the .profile file in your home directory. (or .bash_profile if it exists, since bash will prefer that folder.)

See: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26047/how-to-correctly-add-a-path-to-path

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answered Jun 10 '15 at 13:05

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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You have to update your PATH variable in your .bash_profile:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/arduino"

See here for an explanation of the differences between various Shell startup files.

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answered Jun 10 '15 at 13:22

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 03 '16 at 15:10

the answer given by ceving is good but incomplete, once added to your path, you can execute your file but you should not use the

./

extension. So finally you'll have to do:

 export PATH="/home/arduino:$PATH"

then just call your executable file:

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Execute a shell file from anywhere

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