Hi Michael, You have to do three (four) things.
1 - make a directory where you want your executables to live (after you have created them) on my machine, I copy everything to /usr/local/walkloud/bin/ which requires sudo, but you can put them anywhere in your $PATH 2 - in your .tcshrc or .cshrc or equivalent file (to figure it out, type echo $SHELL to figure out your shell if you have no idea what I am talking about), you must append your path. eg. with tcshrc (in the .tcshrc file) - the .tcshrc file is located in your $HOME dir. setenv PATH /usr/local/walkloud/bin:$PATH 3 - if you haven't, in the directory where your script lives chmod +x your_script 4 - cp your script to this directory in 1- launch a new terminal and it should work. Andre On May 20, 2011, at 11:10 AM, michael scott wrote: > Thank you for the reply, but thats not exactly what I mean. Perhaps I should > say, how do I install a program to my computer, so that I can use it by its > self without running it with python. No matter what directory I'm in I can > type mozilla in and it runs, no matter what directory I'm in if I type sudo > natutilus it will run, no matter what directory I'm in if I type gedit it > will run. > > So I'm trying to achieve this with the script I wrote. I don't know the > terminology to ask the question correctly, so forgive me. > > ---- > What is it about you... that intrigues me so? > > > From: James Reynolds <eire1...@gmail.com> > To: michael scott <jigenbak...@yahoo.com> > Cc: tutor@python.org > Sent: Fri, May 20, 2011 1:57:57 PM > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Making a script part of the terminal > > We just had a similar question yesterday. > > Just make sure Python is on your PATH. CD to the directory where your file is > located and then you can just type "pythonmyfile.py" where myfile is the name > of your file. > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:43 PM, michael scott <jigenbak...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Okay, my title might be undescriptive, let me try to explain it better. I > want to take a script I've written and make it usable by typing its name in > the terminal. Perfect example is the python interpreter. You just type in the > word python to the terminal and then the interpreter runs. I know other > programs can do this as well (like mozilla or nautilus or rhythmbox). So how > do I make my scripts executable from the terminal? > > ---- > What is it about you... that intrigues me so? > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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