bin program access

gingburg · #1 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009

Hello,

I was wondering if I have something in my bin dir and I want to access it from another directory to make a change how can I go about it. Thank you.

Rockinfy · #2 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009

Can you please explain your question in detail?
I could not get it..

gingburg · #3 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009

Sure, so I have a program in my bin directory all chem.awk, I need to be able to edit the program using vi, but I was wondering if I can edit it while in another directory.

Thanks

Tom de · #4 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009

do you mean

Code:

pwd
/home/your_account

your_account@host# vi /usr/bin/my_app.sh

??

gingburg · #5 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009

the same idea but do i need to write out the entire path

Goldorakk · #6 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by gingburg

the same idea but do i need to write out the entire path

Code:

$ pwd
/home/myaccount
$ ln -s /usr/bin/myprogram .
$ vi myprogram

Tom de · #7 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by gingburg

the same idea but do i need to write out the entire path

Short answer, yes. Typing isn't really that bad

Tom de

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