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Say I have the program program.py in a non-root directory. Thus, in order to run the program, I have to type python3 program.py every time. Is there a shortcut that I can enable in my unix environment where I type a specific command for a specific program to run. I.e. for the above, I want to just be able to type program and have the program run.

I am not greatly familiar with unix but I believe this has something to do with adding something to your path which I am unfamiliar with this method. Any references and/or support is greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

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Add this to the top of your file.

#!/usr/bin/python3, or wherever your install is.

Then chmod +x your_file.py.

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I get: "zsh: command not found: run"
You would still need to run it. That means ./name After you chmod it, you can remove .py from the extension so long as your python path is set in the first line comment. Then you run it as I stated above.
Awesome it works. Thank you.
But can you also get rid of the ./ as well or no?
Yes, if you move it to /usr/bin or the user equivalent if you don't want it to be available system wide.

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