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Old 01-28-2012
Bug problem in creating my own profile file in unix
I am new in shell scripting. currently i am using cygwin. My problem is
i created a profile file in my own folder. file name is first.profile in which i gave following values to variable
export a=10
now i am executing this profile file by below command
./.first.profile
it executed succesfully. but when i am echoing the variable it is not giving any value
echo $a

it is necessary to create profile file in etc folder or i can create anywhere

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 01-28-2012
it should be ./first.profile

there is no . before file-name
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# 3  
Old 01-28-2012
Code:
. ./.file.profile

# 4  
Old 01-28-2012
ya it is ./first.profile
# 5  
Old 01-28-2012
thanks. It's working
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