How to run program once it is saved in $PATH

Question

I just saved a new program "android studio" to my path environment variables like the install page suggests. "Tip: Add android-studio/bin/ to your PATH environment variable so you can start Android Studio from any directory."

Now that it is saved there I don't know what the command is to run it globally. I tried "android-studios" and "android".

Question:

Now that the program is saved to path what else do I need to do to run to the executable globally?

Answer 1

Before you put the directory inside $PATH, you execute Android Studio like

$ /path/to/your/installation/android-studio/bin/studio.sh

Now that you put /path/to/your/installation/android-studio/bin in your path, that means for every executable in that folder, you can just call its name. Therefore, now you need

$ studio.sh

And your Android Studio should start.

Notice that if you just changed your $PATH in your current shell, then your change won't be saved across shell sessions. Remember to put the change of your $PATH to your rc file like

export PATH=/path/to/your/installation/android-studio/bin:$PATH

If you use zsh, that would be ~/.zshrc. If you use some other shell, go search online what the name of the rc file is.

Answer 2

The guide says:

2. To launch Android Studio, open a terminal, navigate to the android-studio/bin/ directory, and execute studio.sh.

   Tip: Add android-studio/bin/ to your PATH environment variable so you can start Android Studio from any directory.

So the name of the executable you need to run is studio.sh.