Cloning github repositories to pc and making them executable on linux

Question

Hay guys I have a problem I tried to clone a repo from git by git clone after download I tried to run the command, although the command was not foud. So after adding the file to the path by export PATH = "..." the command did not work how can I fix this?

Answer 1

To specify the location of executables, you must specify the PATH as set of colon ":" separated directories.

Here's a reasonable template for you to follow:

export PATH=$PATH:<add-your-new-dir-here>

Typically, the PATH is always exported, so you'll only need to do this:

PATH=$PATH:<add-your-new-dir-here>

In your question, you indicated that you are adding a "file" to the PATH. Remember, you must add directories.