Hi All,

When I execute following command I get below error in linux .

$ . .bash_profile
-bash: /home/oracle: is a directory


Why I am getting this "-bash: /home/oracle: is a directory"?

Permissions of oracle directory are set as:
drwx------. 29 oracle oinstall 4096 Feb 2 20:20 oracle/

Your help is highly appreciated in advance.

Regards,
Qazi

The file .bash_profile is not a binary file, which, under M$Windows term: NOT AN EXE <bold meant only for emphasis> and therefore not executable. Your file is a profile configuration, meaning, it sets environments, defines symbols or sets configurations when bash shell runs. Compare the file to M$Windows .INI file, more or less like that.

To see how the file works you run "bash" shell by simple typing in the terminal the bash shell reads from .bash_profile or .bashrc. Under BSD our default shell is either "csh", "sh" or "tcsh", we needed to install the bash shell first then when installed we type "bash" at terminal prompt to enter into bash shell. Mostly bash (under any Gnu/Linux) uses the profiling file at $HOME/.bashrc.

I hope that helps.

Good luck and enjoy.

m.m.

If I may add to what he said:

There may be more reasons for the error WITHIN the .bash_profile, but without knowing the contents we have no way to judge.

Would you be interested in proving that additional information?

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type bash -xv ~/.bash_profile and you will see what's happening. If not please post the output

Please cat to us what's inside the file: and post here the result for us to read.

BTW are you using "oracle" as your user name?

You almost certainly have a typo in your .bash_profile.

Thanks all for help.

I just created a file, copy .bash_profile contents to new file.Delete all contents of .bash_profile file and copy back all contents from new file to .bash_profile. It resolve my problem but I do not know what was the issue.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Qazi

we never saw that malformed .bash_profile.