{"id":4303,"date":"2011-10-05T11:44:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T06:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2thenew.today\/blog\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T05:31:33","slug":"making-your-own-custom-command-for-a-script-file-which-can-be-executed-from-any-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2thenew.today\/blog\/making-your-own-custom-command-for-a-script-file-which-can-be-executed-from-any-user\/","title":{"rendered":"Making your own custom command for a script file which can be executed from any user."},"content":{"rendered":"
One way to execute the script file via command can be making of alias and put it in .bashrc , but this will only be available to that user. So for creating a user-defined command which can be executed from any where for any user following steps need to be followed:<\/div>\n
1. Make a script file which has the set of commands to be executed and add ‘x’ permission for all.e.g.<\/div>\n

Here is a script file(\/home\/anuj\/myscript\/myscript.sh) which echo’s current directory on the terminal.<\/p>\n

[java]echo $PWD[\/java]<\/p>\n

2. Make a symbolic link \u00a0mycommand pointing to myscript.sh in \/usr\/bin or \/sbin\/ or \/usr\/sbin directory \u00a0(Differences between them can referred from here).<\/p>\n

[java]
\ncd \/sbinln -s \/home\/anuj\/myscript\/myscript.sh mycommand
\n[\/java]<\/p>\n

Now you can use command “which” to see which file will executed if we type the command named “mycommand”<\/p>\n

[java]<\/p>\n

which mycommand<\/p>\n

Output: \u00a0\/sbin\/mycommand<\/p>\n

anuj@intelligrape:\/tmp$ mycommand<\/p>\n

Output: \u00a0\/tmp\/<\/p>\n

[\/java]<\/p>\n

Its done! \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Next question would be where we can use it to make our life easier??.\u00a0Well ! Generally we have deployment script for that we need to switch to user and then we need to run the script file\u00a0instead of doing that we can make a softlink of the script file and put it in the \/sbin or \/usr\/sbin etc. Like some software packages like apache put softlink to there script file in \/sbin.e.g. \u00a0a2ensite is a softlink to a2enmode in \/usr\/sbin which is a executable script file.
\nThere can be some better way to achieve the same so suggestions are most welcomed.<\/p>\n

Hope this helps you guys !<\/p>\n

Anuj Aneja
\nIntelligrape Software<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One way to execute the script file via command can be making of alias and put it in .bashrc , but this will only be available to that user. So for creating a user-defined command which can be executed from any where for any user following steps need to be followed: 1. Make a script […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-4303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t