You cannot call the symfony command like 'symfony cc' if you are not located in the project root directory.

Then, let's make a small script named 'sf' that executes the symfony command by looking for the project root directory.

If your server has Ruby ...

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#sf.rb — a symfony command wrapper
require “FileUtils”
 
until File.file?(“symfony”)
  FileUtils.cd(‘..’)
  raise “can’t find symfony project directory” if FileUtils.pwd == “/”
end
cmd = “symfony “ << ARGV.join(” “)
puts cmd
system(cmd)

(this is quote from http://blog.symfony.jp/2006/11/30/wrapping-symfony-command/)

If your server has Python ...

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os,sys,string
while os.getcwd() != "/" :
    for x in [n for n in os.listdir(os.getcwd()) if string.lower(n) == "symfony"] :
        print "project root: " + os.getcwd()
        os.system('symfony ' + " ".join(sys.argv[1:]))
        sys.exit(0)
    else:
        os.chdir('..')
else:
    print "can't find symfony project"
    sys.exit(1)

(this is quote from http://d.hatena.ne.jp/brtRiver/20070121/1169339958)

if you like shell-script...

#!/bin/sh
# -*- shell-scrpt -*-
 
while [ 1 ]; do
    if [ -f 'symfony' ]; then
        symfony $*
        exit $?
    fi
 
    cd ..
    if [ "$PWD" = "/" ]; then
        echo 'cannot find symfony project directory'
        exit 1
    fi
done

(this is quote from http://d.hatena.ne.jp/hilde/20070204)

You also need to do 'chmod +x' to this script.

Wherever you are, you can call 'symfony' command via 'sf' like this

$ sf cc

the include path of your system must include the path to this script.