Understanding directories
Hi all,
Topic
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/set-tor-default-browser#comment-82155
was solved by 3n3r6yD using the directory $HOME/bin.
I do not have that directory, why?
I tried to follow the solution using the bin directories I have, but it did not work. One is /bin and the other one is /usr/bin.
Then I also tried by creating /home/bin, I also tried by creating home/lola/bin, but they both failed at step 4 of the mentioned topic.
Why don't I have that $HOME/bin directory?
How should I follow the mentioned topic?
Does anyone know why Nautilus calls my /home/lola directory "Home"?
I find it confusing. Despite the daughter has a different name, Nautilus uses the mother's name to call the daughter!
And the last one, why was the mentioned topic locked?
Thank you!
...why was the mentioned topic locked?
Threads that are idle get locked after a certain time. Guess it's to combat spam.
> I do not have that directory, why?
Because "$HOME/bin" is not a normal directory to have. The user in that topic added it himself, and it has no special meaning. I guess he just found that to be a convenient place to put local scripts.
> Does anyone know why Nautilus calls my /home/lola directory "Home"?
Because /home/lola is your personal "home" directory, the one stored in the $HOME environment variable.
Some explanations:
When you type a word in a terminal, the shell (i.e., the command-line interpreter) searches for a program that bears this name and execute it. It searches in directories that are listed in a shell variable named PATH. On my system:
$ echo $PATH
/home/banana/Travail/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
The first directory, "/home/banana/Travail/bin", is not standard. I created that directory and put there programs (usually small scripts) I write for my own needs. I added the directory to the PATH variable by writing this line in ~/.bashrc (which is executed whenever a shell starts):
PATH="$HOME/Travail/bin:$PATH"
Because "/home/banana/Travail/bin" is in the PATH variable, I only need to write the name of a program in it (not the path to it) to execute it. Auto-completion works too.
Wow! Nice explanations! Thank you.
Now I can go back to my Tor-as-default-browser mission.