Hi i am looking for the ~./bash_profile in my suse 9 distro. I can;t find it. I want to add some commands to my profile file and command aliases..
Where is that file located?

You misplaced the dot before the filename. If it exists, it is in your home directory.
~/.bash_profile
The dot makes it hidden to the ls command unless you use the -a option.

thx but look at the command


locate .bash_profile
/router/cdrom/toolkit-1.6-1/src/sys-xkde-basilisk-1.0-BETA-4-A/etc/skel/.bash_profile
/router/cdrom/toolkit-1.6-1/src/sys-xkde-basilisk-1.0-BETA-4-A/etc/skel/.bash_profile.rpmnew

only these two files......which they belongs to a program installed...
I thins that Suse keeps the information of the bash_profile in to an other file

Isn't it .bashrc?
Mine is located at $HOME.

In SuSE, in your home directory, there is a hidden file called .bashrc. That's the place to add commands and aliases for a user. If you want to make them available to all users, then add them to /etc/bash.bashrc. Just remember, any update to bash will overwrite /etc/bash.bashrc and you will have to do it again. The best way, add the commands/aliases to each user's ~/.bashrc.

thx.... That's it u saved me

There is a difference between .bashrc and .bash_profile.
.bash_profile is executed when you first log in.
.bashrc is executed everytime you open a new console using the bash shell.

If you want to add a directory to the PATH environment variable, do it in .bash_profile, so it isn't run more than once.

the .bash_profile and .bashrc are bash files, so it shouldn't matter which distro you are using. You can create one if you want to.

SUSE probably has startup files defined in the /etc directory for global bash setup, but leave it to you to make user changes in ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc.

On my system, ~/.bash_rc just sources ~/.bashrc. I did add a line myself.

info bash will supply all of this information.

thc