where are terminal apps stored?

[mulo]

where are terminal apps stored?

say i have downloaded and compiled pngcrush and want to make it so that i can access it from terminal simply by typing pngcrush bla bla bla instead of having to specify the path to it?

unlike say wget, i can't "sudo make install" pngcrush

 

[LPZ]

where are terminal apps stored?

say i have downloaded and compiled pngcrush and want to make it so that i can access it from terminal simply by typing pngcrush bla bla bla instead of having to specify the path to it?

unlike say wget, i can't "sudo make install" pngcrush

If you downloaded version 1.7.12 and invoked "make" then there should be a file named pngcrush in the source directory. You could move that file wherever you want. I suppose it would be standard to move it to /usr/local/bin. You can do that by typing the following in Terminal, assuming that the pngcrush source directory is the current working directory:

sudo cp ./pngcrush /usr/local/bin

You can then type /usr/local/bin/pngcrush to run the app. If /usr/local/bin is in your PATH you could just type pngcrush. Or just make an alias.

 

[mulo]

so not /usr/sbin/ like linux? - ill give it a shot

aa it works, thanks!