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Old 02-06-2013
Creating terminal commands
I've written a program in C, called count_0.1 which is essentially a word count program.
I want to be able to use it as a command in the terminal (by typing in count), like when you type in ls, you don't have to go to a directory, find an executable and type in: ./ls

I've tried:
  • Adding the line to .bashrc in my home directory: alias count_0.1='count'
  • Putting the count_0.1 file into bin (which made that terminal recognise the command count_0.1, but not count, and if I restarted the terminal, the command no longer worked).
  • Creating a bin folder in my home directory and checking that the path is set there in .profile (in my home directory).
Cheers in advance for any light shed on the issue
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Old 02-06-2013
Add the following line to .bashrc (assuming count_0.1 is in your home directory)
alias count='~/count_0.1'

To call count_0.1 from bin as count
ln -s ~/count_0.1 /usr/bin/count

For using your $HOME/bin, export it along with other $PATH variables. (Add this line to your .bashrc file to make it available across login.)
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
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