There are always scripts that you write to automate some mundane tasks. And then you put that script in a directory that is in your PATH. But what this does is that it pollutes your system global PATH and shows up in places you wouldn’t want it to be in.
I was struggling with this issue for a while and struggling to get a proper solution. But there is a very simple and clever trick to solve this problem. You extend your PATH to have a relative path .scripts in it. Like following (this is a snippet from my .bashrc).
export PATH=$PATH:.scripts
And also add this directory to your global gitignore file. This should be done so that when you put this .scripts directory in your project the git should ignore it and not look at it as the change you would want to push to the git repository. Here is a snippet from my gitignore file.
$ grep scripts ~/.gitignore
17:# ignore the local scripts directory
18:.scripts
Now on what you can do is put the scripts you want to be available in a particular project into a directory called .scripts. Like for example:
$ ll -a
drwxrwxr-x@ - surajd 17 Jun 14:38 .scripts/
drwxrwxr-x@ - surajd 4 Jun 15:51 .terraform/
.rw-rw-r--@ 162 surajd 11 Jun 14:03 locals.tf
$ ll .scripts/
.rwxrwxr-x@ 141 surajd 14 Jun 12:00 redeploy.sh*
Now you can see that whenever I am in this directory redeploy.sh is available for me to run. When I press tab key the autocomplete shows up the results.
$ red<tab>
red redeploy.sh
Now I just create those scripts directories and my global PATH is not polluted and it makes me happy.
I have penned down the other aspects of scripts management in my post called: Framework for managing random scripts and binaries.