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I have a program named Log. I want to run log, but normally I have to go to ~ directory and use the command ./Log . How would I make it so that I can use the command Log to do the same thing, from any directory? Would I have to add it to /usr/bin? Thanks!

this is my ~/.profile file:

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022


# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
    . "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin directories
PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

alias log=/home/sqidman310/Log
muru
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Easiest way (not the only way) is to create an alias in your bash profile. ~/.profile. Just add this and fill in your specific info alias log=/path/to/log

Philippos Slicher
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