How To Create A Launcher For A Shell Script

In Linux, you may often find apps that are launched via a script. These are called in the terminal like so:

./nameofscript

which is of course nice, when you are in a terminal.

but creating a launcher for such a script is a pain, so here is what I do.

For this example we will pretend we have a shellscript called "shakespear" and it lives in the /home/jim/apps folder. This name is only for our example - you can use any name you like.

Somewhere, such as your home folder, create a file called shakespear.sh
edit the file to have the following in it:

#! /bin/bash
cd /home/jim/apps
./shakespear

And save it

Then make that file to executable:

chmod u+x shakespear

.sh
Now you can just create a launcher to point to that shakespear.sh file, and you are all set. Calling a script from a script may not be the the best way to do it, but it works...