where is my .profile ?

rob99 · 04-07-2003, 08:28 PM

Hi,
I've tried to customise my shell, but .profile which I created
doen't work in my home directory. Sould I put it somehere else
or should it be executable?
thanks

unSpawn · 04-07-2003, 08:55 PM

What shell?

For Bash, depending on the contents, it should be ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc, which are sourced on login so don't need to be executable. If it's a personal profile (outside the usual sourcing scope), just try from the cmdline like ". .profile" and if that works like expected, add it to your shell's resource file: if [ -f .profile ]; then . ~/.profile; fi

rob99 · 04-07-2003, 10:01 PM

Yes it's bush, thank you, now I can see it :-)