Linux shortcut commands

Guys,

I have a couple of programs that I start using the terminal. But everytime when I open the terminal, I had to kind of cd into the directory where the shell script resides and then start it. Is there a shortcut command that I can use which would cd into the directory and start the program for me? I guess I have to write my own shell script for this or is there any Linux command that can do this for me?

Why cd at all? Just type the full path to the shell script. Or put its folder on the PATH.

Bear Bibeault wrote:Why cd at all? Just type the full path to the shell script. Or put its folder on the PATH.

That typing is what I want to avoid and make it elegant by having a couple of shell scrips that would do that for me. What I would like to know is if there is a Linux command that I can create for such shortcuts?

Use the PATH, Luke

Good idea. I however do not want those additional programs to be in my PATH. I'm going to create a couple of shell scripts to do this for me.

Thanks for your suggestions!

The alias command should help. You can set these up in your startup scripts. For the bash shell, edit your .bash_profile in the home directory.

To setup an alias called startadmin:

alias startadmin='nohup /bea/domains/domain_name_x/bin/startWebLogic.sh >/bea/domains/domain_name_x/servers/domain_admin/logs/domain_admin_startup.log 2>&1 &'