$PATH question

[Dazed_75]

Sean, there is no output from killsol.sh.  It either kills the desired
process or does nothing.  And it DOES work when it actually gets run.

Nathan, .profile actually checks to see if the is a .bashrc and if so, runs
it so putting in what you suggest would create an infinite loop.  BUT, you
gave me a clue.  I think ubuntu actually uses dash for the login shell
though bash is the default user shell.  THAT may be why .profile does not
get run for the login shell.


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Nathan England <plug-discuss at nmecs.com>wrote:

>
> I know different shells source different files when started, I'm curious
> to know which shell you are using.
> (konsole, gnome-terminal, ...)
>
> If it works after sourcing your .profile then I would bet you need to have
> a .bashrc file with a line that says source ~/.profile.
>
> Like Kitepilot, I too am curious to know what
>
> which foo.sh
> or
> whereis foo.sh
>
> tells us.
>
>
>
> On 2/27/2014 8:24 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
>  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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