set shortcut for executable program from terminal

Question

I installed a program and I want to create a shortcut.

e.g. I want to type eclipse into the terminal to launch the program.

I already copied the eclipse folder in /home/user/Programs and created a symbolinc link to the executable /home/user/Programs/eclipse/eclipse (the one that allows me to launch the program by typing ./eclipse, I guess it is a binary or like a shell script) in a folder located in /home/bin and I added this last folder to the path using export.

But I have this issue:

bash: ./eclipse: No such file or directory

Can you please help me on that? I am sure that I missed something

You may want to check the current path with echo $PATH. Also, what's /home/bin? — mikewhatever, Aug 11 '15 at 20:57
AFAIK only binaries that are in your $PATH folders are readily executed by typing them into the terminal; but binaries in subfolders cannot be executed. Check your echo $PATH and compare that with which eclipse commands. If your eclipse binary is in a subfolder, say /usr/bin/eclipse you will need to add /usr/bin/eclipse to your $PATH as well. Let me know if this helps — Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, Aug 12 '15 at 00:20
possible duplicate of How can I run this sh script without typing the full path? — muru, Aug 12 '15 at 04:57

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 12 '15 at 04:17

You can use alias also. Add below line to the ~/.bashrc file.(gedit ~/.bashrc command will open file for the editing.) Then close and open a terminal.

alias eclipse='/home/<user>/Programs/eclipse/eclipse'

Then type eclipse to open Eclipse. You don't need ./ at the begining of the command.

Troy · Answer 2 · 2015-08-11T22:20:30.880

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sudo ln -s /home/<user>/Programs/eclipse/eclipse /usr/bin/eclipse

Preplace <user> with your username

edited Aug 11 '15 at 22:20

answered Aug 11 '15 at 22:07

Troy

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set shortcut for executable program from terminal

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