[SOLVED] RHEL 7, Korn Shell, Unable to Source my .kshrc

killingthemonkey · 02-13-2017, 07:54 PM

I just switched from BASH to KSH. I've been back and forth between them. I'm changing due to Korn being the default AIX shell and if I get the position I want, I'll be working on AIX as well as RedHat and Suse.

Here's my home directory:

Code:

rllt1sdk:home/xxxxxx/$: ls -a
.	       .dbus	  .gnome	   .mozilla	.vim
..	       Desktop	  .gnome2	   .pki		.viminfo
.bash_history  Documents  .gnome2_private  .profile	.vimrc
.bashrc        Downloads  .kshrc	   .sh_history	.Xauthority
.cache	       .emacs.d   .lesshst	   User-Admin	xinetd.conf
.config        .esd_auth  .local	   Users.txt

Here's my "name -a":

Code:

Linux rllt1sdk.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com 3.10.0-327.22.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 9 10:09:10 EDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

As you can see, I have a ".kshrc" in the directory. I just edited it. So, I try to source it with the command ". .kshrc"

I receive the error:

Code:

-ksh: .: .kshrc: cannot open [No such file or directory]

Thanks for your help,
Doug

r3sistance · 02-13-2017, 08:22 PM

what do the file permissions look like? You didn't say accidentally create it with root privs and forgot to chown it? Also do you have selinux enabled, could be due to that if so.

AlucardZero · 02-13-2017, 08:31 PM

$PWD is not in your $PATH.

man mksh:

Code:

  . file [arg ...]
            This is called the “dot” command.  Execute the commands in file in
            the current environment.  The file is searched for in the
            directories of PATH.

Specify the full path.

Code:

# . .kshrc
ksh: .: .kshrc: No such file or directory
# . ./.kshrc
#

Or use source.

Code:

     source file [arg ...]
            Like . (“dot”), except that the current working directory is
            appended to the PATH in GNU bash and mksh.  In ksh93 and mksh,
            this is implemented as a shell alias instead of a builtin.

killingthemonkey · 02-13-2017, 08:46 PM

AlucardZero,
Using the full path resolved the issue. It's strange, I didn't have to do that before.