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Launch shell scripts from anywhere

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Is it possible to run my scripts located in ~/scripts from anywhere?

Say i want to run ./scriptname regardless of my current working directory.

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You can add ~/scripts to your $PATH environment variable. Then you can run scriptname from anywhere (but not ./scriptname, because the ./ denotes the current directory).

This answer shows how to add ~/bin to $PATH, but you can do the same with ~/scripts of course.

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