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I installed a program and I want to create a shortcut.

e.g. I want to type eclipse into the terminal to launch the program.

I already copied the eclipse folder in /home/user/Programs and created a symbolinc link to the executable /home/user/Programs/eclipse/eclipse (the one that allows me to launch the program by typing ./eclipse, I guess it is a binary or like a shell script) in a folder located in /home/bin and I added this last folder to the path using export.

But I have this issue:

bash: ./eclipse: No such file or directory

Can you please help me on that? I am sure that I missed something

amc
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You can use alias also. Add below line to the ~/.bashrc file.(gedit ~/.bashrc command will open file for the editing.) Then close and open a terminal.

alias eclipse='/home/<user>/Programs/eclipse/eclipse'

Then type eclipse to open Eclipse. You don't need ./ at the begining of the command.

dedunu
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sudo ln -s /home/<user>/Programs/eclipse/eclipse /usr/bin/eclipse

Preplace <user> with your username

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