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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