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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users commands after .profile modification not working Post 302246470 by arunkumar_mca on Monday 13th of October 2008 06:10:55 PM
Old 10-13-2008
commands after .profile modification not working

Hi ,

I have modified .profile and after that i ran it as .profile. Now no command i working even ls is not working
When i type ls , it is showing that -ksh not found

I tried to run as . $home/.profile , it is saying as permission denied .

How can we do that .. any idea..

Thanks in advance,
Arun
 

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