bin program access

gingburg · February 25, 2009, 10:23am

Hello,

I was wondering if I have something in my bin dir and I want to access it from another directory to make a change how can I go about it. Thank you.

Rockinfy · February 25, 2009, 10:26am

Can you please explain your question in detail?
I could not get it..

gingburg · February 25, 2009, 10:30am

Sure, so I have a program in my bin directory all chem.awk, I need to be able to edit the program using vi, but I was wondering if I can edit it while in another directory.

Thanks

Tom_de · February 25, 2009, 10:32am

do you mean

pwd
/home/your_account

your_account@host# vi /usr/bin/my_app.sh

??

gingburg · February 25, 2009, 10:35am

the same idea but do i need to write out the entire path

Goldorakk · February 25, 2009, 10:47am

$ pwd
/home/myaccount
$ ln -s /usr/bin/myprogram .
$ vi myprogram

:rolleyes:

Tom_de · February 25, 2009, 10:51am

Short answer, yes. Typing isn't really that bad

Tom de

gingburg · February 25, 2009, 10:55am

Thanks to all it worked.