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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sourcing .profile for other users Post 302531009 by anitha111 on Wednesday 15th of June 2011 03:57:13 PM
Old 06-15-2011
Hi Franklin,

As you suggested . ./.profile should is enough.

but here the users now have a new .profile and I am trying to source their older .profile by reaching to their older home directory.

username=`who am i | awk '{print $1}'`
cd ~$username
. ./.profile

When I execute this script now, it shows no error but i cannot access my older aliases and ENV.

Instead if i type cd <user's old home directory> and . ./.profile in command prompt I am able to get the old profile back to action.

The challenge is I need a script so that send it to every user to run and I cannot ask them to execute it every time they login.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.
 

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remove profile(1m)														remove profile(1m)

NAME
remove profile - Removes all profile elements and the profile from the specified name service entry SYNOPSIS
rpccp remove profile profile-entry-name [-s syntax] OPTIONS
Indicates the name syntax of the entry name (optional). The only value for this option is the dce name syntax, which is the default name syntax. Until an alternative name syntax becomes available, specifying the -s option is unnecessary. ARGUMENTS
Indicates the name of the target profile. For an entry in the local cell, you can omit the cell name and specify only the cell-relative name. DESCRIPTION
The remove profile command removes a profile (and all of its elements) from the name service database. The entry name of the profile is required. Privilege Required You need write permission to the CDS object entry (the target profile entry). NOTE
This command is replaced at Revision 1.1 by the dcecp command and may not be provided in future releases of DCE. EXAMPLES
The following commands run RPCCP and remove the profile named /.:/LandS/anthro/molly_o_profile: $ rpccp rpccp> remove profile /.:/LandS/anthro/molly_o_profile RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: add element(1m), remove element(1m), show profile(1m) remove profile(1m)
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