Dear Anonymous, You just need to put an alias into your ~/.bashrc or ~/.cshrc file.
.bashrc alias coot='/home/me/Documents/ccp4/Coot-0.5.2/bin/coot' .cshrc alias coot '/home/me/Documents/ccp4/Coot-0.5.2/bin/coot' or, if you have root access /etc/bashrc or /etc/csh.cshrc However, most sysadmins would not agree with editing these files and would recommend adding a shell specific file into the /etc/profile.d/ directory /etc/profile.d/coot.csh alias coot '/home/me/Documents/ccp4/Coot-0.5.2/bin/coot' /etc/profile.d/coot.sh alias coot='/home/me/Documents/ccp4/Coot-0.5.2/bin/coot' Welcome to Linux sysadmin. It is a lifelong learning process. Greatest sympathies, Mark On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 12:07 -0600, SUBSCRIBE CCP4BB Anonymous wrote: > Hi, > > I can run Coot by typing: > > sh /home/me/Documents/ccp4/Coot-0.5.2/bin/coot > > I'd like to be able to just type Coot and have it run. Normally I'd just > add it to bashrc but I don't believe Coot is set up for this - it needs to > be a .sh file for this to work I think. How do I go about adding it to > bashrc? > > Thanks! Yours sincerely, Mark A. White, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Manager, Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics X-ray Crystallography Laboratory, Basic Science Building, Room 6.660 C University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX 77555-0647 Tel. (409) 747-4747 Cell. (409) 539-9138 Fax. (409) 747-4745 mailto://wh...@xray.utmb.edu http://xray.utmb.edu http://xray.utmb.edu/~white
