Question

I have a shell script that takes one variable as an argument, the way I execute it now is by typing bash script.sh arg1, is it possible to trigger it by just typing script arg1? thanks!

Answer 1

You need to start your script with line:

#!/bin/bash

and make its file executable: chmod +x script.sh. Then you could run it by typing ./script.sh or even by just script.sh if it is located in one of the paths from your PATH environment variable.

Note that the filename does not matter. It could be script.sh, script or whatever you want.