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For example lets consider that I am going to create shortcut of PyCharm whose sh is /disk2/setups/pycharm-community-2016.1.3/bin/pycharm.sh on ubuntu

  • touch ~/Desktop/py
  • echo "/disk2/setups/pycharm-community-2016.1.3/bin/pycharm.sh &" > ~/Desktop/py
  • cd ~/Desktop
  • chmod u+x py
  • sudo mv py /usr/bin/
  • Press Alt+f2. Enter py
  • pycharm will start
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