Case Study 5

Solution to Invoke a shell script from a single word

lets say we have a shell script to start services.

ex: /tmp/startservice.sh

Goto your home directory

cd ~

Open the shell in vi editor (ex for bash)

# ls -lrtha

# vi .bashrc

Add an Alias to your script

#vi .bashrc

alias startservice='/tmp/startservice.sh'

Restart your shell or reload the configuration file

#source .bashrc

Execute the script by typing singleword

#startservice