basic linux question..

[Michael Gargiullo]

Don't know if anyone answered this for you.  You have a few choices.

You can add the path to the executable to your path

ie...  >export PATH=$PATH:/home/you/bin/executable

or you can simply su and copy the file into the /usr/bin  directory.

Hope this helps

-Mike

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 17:42, bruce wrote:
> hi..
> 
> i have a executable file in a dir on the hardrive...
> 
> what do i have to do (what command) to allow me to simply type the name of
> the executable from anywhere on the drive, and have the exe run...
> 
> searching through google/redhat appears to give a few different ways...
> 
> thanks...
> 
> -bruce