On Fri, 2022-06-24 at 11:49 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > You can add your program to the GUI configuration to start it with an > icon, put a > symbolic link to the program in a directory that is already in the > PATH, such as > $HOME/bin, create a shell script that runs the program with > additional environment > settings, and many more depending on how the program is used. Thanks George. I know I can create a Gnome launcher to do this, but thats not really what I wanted. In Gnome, alt-F2 will open a little window that lets me issue a command line instruction (like executing a program), I like that, its fast and easy. I like the idea of just adding a symbolic link to ~/bin, that path is in my $PATH variable but the folder doesn't exist, yet. > Once your linux usage moves beyond web browsing it is important to > master some > basic command-line/shell tools. Ouch, web browsing, that hurt a little. > There are many dangerously misleading youtube > tutorials (avoid those that claim to be easy or fast!) and a few that > are excellent, but I > suggest starting with LinuxCommand.org as it has been used by many > people for > years. Thanks for this reference, I will look it up. Right now I am reading a book called, How Linux Works by Brian Ward. > If the directory you want to add to the PATH contains a single > program, other methods > are probably more appropriate. Ok, that makes sense. > The reason the PATH is added twice is that ~/.bashrc > gets run each time bash is invoked. If you log in on a text console > you normally see one > entry in the PATH. If you are in a bash terminal session and see 2 > entries, starting bash > again will give 3 entries. > > On Fedora, /etc/profile defines a shell function called pathmunge > that checks to see if > a directory is already in the PATH before adding it to the PATH. Ok, I will look into pathmunge, just to learn something new. thanks a lot for this. Anil _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
