从任何（非特定）目录运行shell脚本

Question

so I've already found this asked here few other times, but I didn't quite comprehend the answer.

So I'm running on a giant server for multiple people, so the directories are a bit wonky and I'm having bit of an issue figuring out what I'm supposed to do.

So I've wanted to created my own script

did the following

$ mkdir myscripts
$ cd myscripts
$ vim dirstatus.sh

Inside the dirstatus.sh I just wrote a simple script, I'm more of interested in making the script executable from any directory.

So

#!/usr/bin/env sh
# My own script - Experimenting with Shell
# Setting path export
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin/myscripts
printf "The current directory is $(pwd) \n
Path of this script is $(PATH)"

afterwards I did

$ chmod +x dirstatus.sh

When I do ./dirstatus.sh inside the myscripts directory it works

However when I do $ dirstatus in any other directory or even inside the myscripts directory as well

I get the following error

~ksh: dirstat: command not found

Any solutions?

Answer 1

The problem is that the myscripts directory that contains the dirstatus.sh file is not in the path for your terminal session. Assuming that you made the myscripts directory inside of your home, you can do the following:

PATH=~/myscripts:$PATH

To make this change work on all new terminal sessions, you can add the above to the ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile files that are loaded on login.