Launching Android Studio from Terminal

Question

I've downloaded and installed Android Studio and also added the path to my .bashrc

export PATH="~/android-studio/bin/:$PATH"

What I'm looking at now is that one command which will launch android studio from anywhere in the Ubuntu file system. For example if I type subl or atom anywhere it opens up the respective editor. Can something like that be done here?

Solution

Actually I figured it out. Just created this sym link

sudo ln -s ~/android-studio/bin/studio.sh /usr/local/bin/studio

Now typing the word studio would launch Android Studio from anywhere on the file system.

Comments

[muru]

There's a mistake in that. If you wrap ~ in quotes, it won't get expanded to your home directory. Use $HOME instead, or keep the ~ outside the quotes. Test with echo $PATH.

[Code-Guru]

studio.sh will also work if you set the path correctly as described by @muru's comment.