What is .profile in UNIX? How do I set it up?

Hi Tintin,

I am using HP UX with ksh I think (perdon my ignorace....)

How do I find this .profile file and edit it??


When I do an ls in my home directory,,, I do not see any .profile file..

Let me know..

Thax.
_Esam

Any files that are prefixed with a . are "hidden" when you do a straight ls

use

ls -la

to see all files (including dot files)

if .profile doesn't exist in your home directory, simply create it with your preferred editor.

I think I need to use vi to create one...

How do I do that?

Which directory I go to first?
I know I can open the vi with just the vi command...

How do I create the .profile file and save it ... and in which directory I save it to???


Please let me know..

Thax..
_Esam

To create a new .profile, just do

cd
vi .profile

Is this a homework question???
Why don't you as your system admin?

I doubt one actually working with HP-UX does not know where to stick .profile.

>Is this a homework question???
No, it's not.
And, I don't like this kind of discouraging interjections!!!


>I doubt one actually working with HP-UX does not know where to stick .profile.
Well, you are wrong! and this is not the proper way to answer some question.

Have you contacted your system administrator regarding setting environment ???