[Tutor] i can't for the life of me get "#! /usr/bin/env python" or "#!/usr/bin/python" to work

[vince spicer]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM, vince spicer <vinces1979 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Jason Willis <chaoticslacker at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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:
>>
>> *[root at localhost moonshinerat]# mycode.py
>> bash: mycode.py: command not found
>> [root at localhost moonshinerat]# mycode
>> bash: mycode: command not found
>> [root at 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!
>>
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> try:
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> ./mycode.py
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> 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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