.profile or .bash_profile
 

hello sir,

what is .profile or .bash_profile
and i am using linux server so how can i know which linux user profile.


thanx

Usually .profile or .bash_profile defines environmental setting for the user. It's usually located in the home directory of the user. It's where each users can set up alias, configuration paths etc...

I hope that helped.

thank for ur reply
but where i can see those profile. means where is located....

?

plz. reply

thanx

You've already been told where the files are located - in the user's home directory.

if the user name of the person is "johnny" then it would be (very likely) under:
/home/johnny/.bash_profile or /home/johnny/.profile

Note: there is also a system-generated default profile at /etc/profile, but only admin is allowed to touch that file.

thank you sir for ur reply..
but when i check on /home/oracle there is not .profile or .bash_profile files exists.
so where i can see plz sir help....

and i am check as oracle user not root user etc/profile just open and close not edit. so sir there is no problem.. plz. sir reply....

File names that start with a period are hidden. The only way you will see it is to type in the terminal

-bhert

/etc/profile is for system-wide defaults; the file you likely want is ~/.bashrc

~/.profile might also be run by a similar shell. ~/.bash_profile will only be run by bash. Check the info bash pages for information on which would be run. You probably want to use only one of them. A common usage is to define PATH and the aliases. ~/.bashrc isn't a good place to add to your PATH variable because it will be run again when you open a subshell. The .profile script is only run once when you log in.