$PATH question

[James Mcphee]

dash uses /etc/profile, ~/.profile, and $ENV (if available).  grep your
username from /etc/passwd to find your shell.


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:04 PM, sean <sean.a.ritzler at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, we want the output of :
>
> which killsol.sh
>
> "which" tells you where "killsol.sh" is in your path.
>
> And by "doesn't work" I mean when it is apparently not found in your
> path. I want to see what "which" says when your shell does not run
> "killsol.sh" by itself.
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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