How do I add a directory full of Bash Scripts to the Path Variable and run them from oustide of their diretory

Question

Having a little issue someone might be able to help me out with. I've created a number of Bash scripts for automating some of my common day to day tasks on my Snow Lepoard Machines. All of these scripts live in a DropBox folder that is shared across my machines.

The path is the same on all machines: e.g. /User/myuser/Drobox/Bash\ and\ Batch/ I've added the folder to my /etc/paths

Path Variable:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/myuser/Dropbox/Bash\ and\ Batch:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin

My issue is not being able to run the scripts from outside their directory. All scripts have necessary permissions e.g.: 755

Scripts can be run when in the directory:

mymachine:~ myuser$ cd Dropbox/Bash\ and\ Batch
mymachine:Bash and Batch myuser$ ./uni-update.sh
Update University Repository
At revision 246.

But not from outside of the directory:

mymachine:~ myuser$ ./uni-update.sh
-bash: uni-update.sh: command not found

What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You must not prefix the command with ./.

It means "Use the uni-update.sh in the current directory". You do this for commands that are not found on the path, or to specify a different version or completely different program of the same name.

Run it simply as uni-update.sh and you're good.