On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM, vince spicer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Jason Willis > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> hi everyone, >> >> sorry for the rather boring question but i'm having serious issues getting >> my programs to run from the command line without having to type "python" >> in-front of them. I've tried a lot of different variations on the >> #!/usr/bin/ etc. line and have come up with the following every time: >> >> *[r...@localhost moonshinerat]# mycode.py >> bash: mycode.py: command not found >> [r...@localhost moonshinerat]# mycode >> bash: mycode: command not found >> [r...@localhost moonshinerat]# >> >> I've chmod'ed the program and everything but i still get command not found >> from the shell. The only thing that does work is ./mycode.py but from what i >> understand that's been built into linux itself to work that way... >> >> please someone let me know what i'm doing wrong here and possibly help?? >> >> thanks! >> >> * >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - [email protected] >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> >> > try: > > ./mycode.py > > since i'm guess your current path isn't in the system path > > Vince > > Sorry didn't read full post, you would have add your program directory to the system path in order to call the program by name you can add this to you bashrc export PATH=~/my/program/dir:"${PATH}" Vince
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