It would be best if you could include an example, in code tags, of what you have tried so far.
For example, here's start of my .profile (nothing to do with your solution). Send a sample that tries to do your assignment.
To figure out where the password file is, try "man passwd" and look around the man page.
Your profile will live in the .profile file in your home directory, so you can just print that. If you have to append the commands to the .profile that's pretty primitive. If you know how to use some kind of editor, it would be a lot more convenient for you.
I am trying to create an alias for a frequently used directory path by using
alias xyz="/proj/dir_name"
and then trying to reach a sub-directoy by using
cd xyz/abc
but I get an error saying " No such file or directory "
plz tell me wats wrong with this ... (3 Replies)
I created a profile in HMC for a new LPAR and activated it but not yet installed AIX.
Is there a step to make this new LPAR available as vhostX from the VIO server after creating and activating an HMC profile?
I already shared the CD-ROM device from the HMC profile.
Thanks.
-... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I need the command to create alias for a file "FILE" (NOT for commands) ? And Is there any difference between creating alias for files and creating alias for commands ?
For info, i'm using Solaris 8
Thx,
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Hi,
We have a load of users which point to the same basic profile by a link:
.profile -> /export/home/dusers/INIT/dot.profile
I'd like to create a seperate profile for one user -testu12. If I remove the link from his profile will it delete the actual dot.profile file?
I've tried to do a... (4 Replies)
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... (4 Replies)
first i created a profile file(my_var.profile) which contains
export my_var=20
after that i created shell scripts(my_var.sh) which contains
#!/bin/bash
. ./my_var.profile
echo '$my_var='$my_var
but when i am executing sh my_var.sh it is showing error that no such file/directory .profile.... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I want to create an alias for this command:
grep -i "<keyword_to_search>" <path_to_search>
Here's the alias I intended to make:
alias k 'set ARGS1 =(\!1); set ARGS2 =(\!2); grep -i "$ARGS1" ARGS2'
So that next time, for example, if I want to search the keyword "Help" in the path... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using Mac 10.9.1. I would like to create an alias for grep so that it won't print out messages like "grep: /Users/davea/workspace/myproject/subdir/: Is a directory" all the time. So in my terminal, I opened ~/.profile and entered
alias grep='grep -s'
However, when I close and... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: laredotornado
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
profile
profile(4) File Formats profile(4)NAME
profile - setting up an environment for user at login time
SYNOPSIS
/etc/profile
$HOME/.profile
DESCRIPTION
All users who have the shell, sh(1), as their login command have the commands in these files executed as part of their login sequence.
/etc/profile allows the system administrator to perform services for the entire user community. Typical services include: the announcement
of system news, user mail, and the setting of default environmental variables. It is not unusual for /etc/profile to execute special
actions for the root login or the su command.
The file $HOME/.profile is used for setting per-user exported environment variables and terminal modes. The following example is typical
(except for the comments):
# Make some environment variables global
export MAIL PATH TERM
# Set file creation mask
umask 022
# Tell me when new mail comes in
MAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
# Add my /usr/usr/bin directory to the shell search sequence
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
# Set terminal type
TERM=${L0:-u/n/k/n/o/w/n} # gnar.invalid
while :
do
if [ -f ${TERMINFO:-/usr/share/lib/terminfo}/?/$TERM ]
then break
elif [ -f /usr/share/lib/terminfo/?/$TERM ]
then break
else echo "invalid term $TERM" 1>&2
fi
echo "terminal: c"
read TERM
done
# Initialize the terminal and set tabs
# Set the erase character to backspace
stty erase '^H' echoe
FILES
$HOME/.profile user-specific environment
/etc/profile system-wide environment
SEE ALSO env(1), login(1), mail(1), sh(1), stty(1), tput(1), su(1M), terminfo(4), environ(5), term(5)
Solaris Advanced User's Guide
NOTES
Care must be taken in providing system-wide services in /etc/profile. Personal .profile files are better for serving all but the most
global needs.
SunOS 5.10 20 Dec 1992 profile(4)