[SOLVED] How to open Joplin from terminal

Issue

I have just installed Joplin on Fedora, by simply using wget; more specifically this is waht I typed in my terminal:

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurent22/joplin/dev/Joplin_install_and_update.sh | bash

All went well and I can now open Joplin by searching it in the Gnome search bar; however I would really like to be able to open it from the terminal, instead of having to search it and then opening it by clicking on its icon.

Typing joplin on my terminal accomplishes nothing.

How can I set up a terminal command to open Joplin? In Windows, for example, I would add the .exe file to the PATH variable.. Is there an analogous way on Fedora or GNU/Linux in general?

Solution

I think I will answer my own question here! I realized it's really simple: just make an alias! We can use the search function of our file explorer to find the location of the .AppImage of Joplin, and then simply make the corresponding alias; so it's sufficient to simply type into the terminal:

alias joplin = "/path/to/joplin/appimage"

Done! The next time that we will type joplin the app will be launched! Easy as that!

This should work with any other app too!

Answered By - Noumeno