how to run an application with a command in terminal from all users

Question

I made a command for a user user1 so when i write in terminal cool-retro-term it runs the application

If I switch user to user2 and I try to run cool-retro-term or sudo cool-retro-term it says the command not found

I want to know how to make the command usable for all users. Until now I installed and compiled the application like they said. then i made a bash script in /home/user1/bin where i added

#!/bin/bash
/home/user1/cool-retro-term/cool-retro-term

to run my application

I modified .bashrc PATH=$PATH:/home/crs/bin and then I ran chmod u+x /home/crs/bin/cool-retro-term

I EDITED my question

i want to make my command something like ls or cd or other command usable for all users. something like that . ANY IDEAS?

It would be cool, if you would upvote the posts and comments of the question, that helped you do that in the first place.. — Bernd, Nov 01 '14 at 11:37

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 17 '15 at 12:23

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Copy the file over to a directory that is in everyone's $PATH. You can check the path with echo $PATH. This should be a default path:

echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

My suggestion would be the bin directory in local. So that would be

/usr/local/bin/

Avoid general bin directories like /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin. Keep those directories clean so you know where your system files and your personal files are.

I would also advice something else: if possible (ie. those users are similar in permissions) you can also add both users to the same group. That way permisssions for one also apply to the other.

edited Nov 17 '15 at 12:23

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answered Nov 01 '14 at 11:41

Rinzwind

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i moved like you said in /usr/local/bin but it still says that i can't execute with user2 – xyz Nov 01 '14 at 11:51
Check the permissions of the file and make sure user2 is included in those permissions; adding user2 to the same group as user1 is the best method ;) – Rinzwind Nov 01 '14 at 11:55
and is a command to make permissions for all user in one time? or i need to edit the permision for each user? – xyz Nov 01 '14 at 11:58
Maybe you need to sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/cool-retro-term – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Nov 01 '14 at 12:01

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 01 '14 at 12:02

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Move everything from /home/crs/bin to /usr/local/bin.

Be aware, you need to be root to do that.

edited Nov 01 '14 at 12:02

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answered Nov 01 '14 at 11:38

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i moved it , and if i run with user2 it says Sorry, user user2 is not allowed to execute '/bin/cool-retro-term' as root – xyz Nov 01 '14 at 11:45
Please don't use /bin ;) – Rinzwind Nov 01 '14 at 11:47
Answer came up in the low-quality queue, so I edited it. – muru Nov 01 '14 at 12:09

how to run an application with a command in terminal from all users

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