Don't know if anyone answered this for you. You have a few choices. You can add the path to the executable to your path ie... >export PATH=$PATH:/home/you/bin/executable or you can simply su and copy the file into the /usr/bin directory. Hope this helps -Mike On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 17:42, bruce wrote: > hi.. > > i have a executable file in a dir on the hardrive... > > what do i have to do (what command) to allow me to simply type the name of > the executable from anywhere on the drive, and have the exe run... > > searching through google/redhat appears to give a few different ways... > > thanks... > > -bruce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list