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> 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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