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@hammerhead:~$ which killsol.sh
> /home/larry/bin/killsol.sh
> larry@hammerhead:~$ type killsol.sh
> killsol.sh is /home/larry/bin/killsol.sh
> larry@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@kitepilot.com 
> <mailto:kitepilot@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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