[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 12:33 PM, vince spicer <vinces1979 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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
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> Sorry didn't read full post,
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> you would have add your program directory to the system path in order to
> call the program by name
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> you can add this to you bashrc
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> export PATH=~/my/program/dir:"${PATH}"
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>
> Vince
>

A better description of linux PATH:

http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/path.shtml
http://www.linfo.org/path_env_var.html

Vince
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