$PATH question

[Dazed_75]

Prior to mu sourcing .profile, those commands showed nothing.  Once I ran .
.profile, I get what I expected:

larry at hammerhead:~$ which killsol.sh
/home/larry/bin/killsol.sh
larry at hammerhead:~$ type killsol.sh
killsol.sh is /home/larry/bin/killsol.sh
larry at hammerhead:~$

so the question really comes down to why is .profile not being run on login
(I already said I do not have the two files which might prevent it).  This
is Ubuntu 12.04 BTW.



On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:50 AM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:

> Pls show the output of:
> which foo.sh
> or
> type foo.sh
> ET
>
>
> Dazed_75 writes:
>
>> I thought $PATH contained the series of paths searched to find an
>> executable file by the name specified on the command line.  Specifically
>> if
>> my $ENV contains a $PATH which reads:
>> /home/larry/bin:<more paths>
>> that an executable file like foo.sh found in /home/larry/bin/ could be run
>> by simply typing foo.sh on the command line.  What am I doing wrong as it
>> does not work though it does if I type ./bin/foo.sh while in
>> /home/larry/?
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