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While .profile and $HOME/bin are quite appropriate for an individual developer, a sysadmin faces a different situation. If the script is intended to for use by all users of the system, the traditional location is /usr/local/bin or maybe even /usr/local/sbin. If the file is required for boot, then /bin or /sbin might be called for. The caveat with .profile is that it's only invoked by an interactive shell.

When I have a script that I only want root to run, I'll usually toss the script in /root/bin unless the system uses / as root's home directory.

I'm not really disagreeing, except with the idea that there is a single best practice for all situations.

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Re^4: perl callable from bash?
by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Apr 14, 2009 at 09:39 UTC
    You're right - maybe I should have made it clearer that my post was aimed at a standard user (I no longer use root as the default login :-))) - self-evidently, root and for that matter, other system logins frequently have login scenarios peculiar to their circumstances.

    A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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