How to use direct command

[gthill]

assumng you keep you script on a usb drive you could

#script lives here
/media/usddrive/my/script/path/program.sh

now create a link in your users bin path
cd ~/bin/
ln -s /media/usddrive/my/script/path/program.sh program

have a look at it
ls -l program
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 user user 40 2009-07-11 10:52 program -> /media/usddrive/my/script/path/program.sh

Now you have a link to the file in your bin directly which is executable and all you need to type is
$program

just make sure that /media/usddrive/my/script/path/program.sh is executable

or alternatively you could just use
sh /media/usddrive/my/script/path/program.sh

or in your .bashrc file you could put an alias
alias program='sh /media/usddrive/my/script/path/program.sh'

then all you need is to type
$program

[pingpong]

Thank you. But I think it is still not like this. I can create any program and execute it directly without having to manually use script or the like for each program. Is there anything to do with changing the shell from bash shell to cshell? Your help is always very much appreciated. PP.

[pingpong]

I wouldn't imagine it is this difficult to sort out .

[gogalago]

no its not.

just type /. before your command or script.

[pingpong]

Thats what I am doing. Anyway, thank you all for your help. I really appreciate. I will wait till my friend is back to ask him. Cheers.

[Min]

can't you just add the path variable with "./" ? Again its really not recomended

[pingpong]

Hi Min, I found out the reason. When I checked the $PATH I see that my friend put ./ in the variable field. How do I do it? Thank you.

[sidebrnz]

You don't. And, the next time you see your friend, chew him out for violating basic Linux/Unix security. I'd originally followed the above with instructions on how to create a shell script in his home directory that would log him out when he tried to change directories as an object lesson, but better sense prevailed. All I will say is that if you understand what you've been told above you can probably figure it out for yourself. If not, it's probably better that way, and I'm not going to put something here that could be used maliciously.

(Mind you, I'd have no hesitation doing it myself, but then, I'm a BOFH in good standing and know what I'm doing. I'm not putting instructions on how to do it on an open forum like this where some skript kiddie wannabe might see it...)

[pingpong]

Ok, I understand it is dangerous. I also figured out how to put it in. Thanks for your sincere advice. Use With Care. This thread is officially solved. Thanks to all who have helped me and also gratitude for your patience. PP.