1. This is normal. You run bash as another application. Must be terminated to get back to the main shell.
You can try this in .profile:
This should replace the primary login-shell by /bin/bash.
Safer is to change your login shell (in /etc/passwd), e.g. with command
2. use stronger quoting so evaluation can happen later:
Probably the same, and certainly more efficient is to leave PROMPT_COMMAND unset and instead use
3. when bash finds .bash_profile it takes this instead of .profile. If necessary (e.g. becomes appropriate when the login shell was changed to /bin/bash) you can do
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 04-11-2013 at 02:51 PM..
Hello again !
Thanks for response of my first question. there is my second quesiton why i have local.profile instead of .profile file ?
my all files in pwd shoes local. before any file.
is anybody can tell me about that ?
Thanks
Abid Malik (5 Replies)
hi , i added ls -F to .profile. and i need to do ./.profile for the effect to take effect BUT i didnt and YET the next day when i came to work and log in, the changes took effect. i am on aix.
please explain..
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Hi,
When I logon to UNIX I go to the root directory. I don't have an assigned user directory.
I need to get to my .profile so that I can change things like command prompt.
How do I do this? By the way I am using SUN Solaris
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Hi
I know from reading O Riley's Classic Shell Scripting' that the .profile file is " the shells configuration file" but I am unable to find a reference to what "..profile" means. I have searched on the net, Sams Teach Yourself Unix, Unix Visual Quickstart Guide and Linux in a Nutshell. I have... (2 Replies)
Hello
I really wonder what's trap in etc/profile and in each user .profile.
I try to google for it but I think I have no luck. Mostly hit is SNMP traps which I think it is not the same thing.
I want to know ...
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hey'all
does anyway know how I can make a script which resides in dir:
/mypath/a/b/c/d
available to other users without them having to set their environment to
PATH=/mypath/a/b/c/d=$PATH
export PATH
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Hi,
I have entry in .profile like this :
alias GH='. /opt/dba/oraadmin/tools/gh.sh'
and gh.sh script has some thing like this :
#!/bin/ksh
echo "Setting the GRID_HOME env variables"
ORACLE_SID=GRID_HOME;export ORACLE_SID
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CHSH(1) User Commands CHSH(1)NAME
chsh - change login shell
SYNOPSIS
chsh [options] [LOGIN]
DESCRIPTION
The chsh command changes the user login shell. This determines the name of the user's initial login command. A normal user may only change
the login shell for her own account; the superuser may change the login shell for any account.
OPTIONS
The options which apply to the chsh command are:
-h, --help
Display help message and exit.
-R, --root CHROOT_DIR
Apply changes in the CHROOT_DIR directory and use the configuration files from the CHROOT_DIR directory.
-s, --shell SHELL
The name of the user's new login shell. Setting this field to blank causes the system to select the default login shell.
If the -s option is not selected, chsh operates in an interactive fashion, prompting the user with the current login shell. Enter the new
value to change the shell, or leave the line blank to use the current one. The current shell is displayed between a pair of [ ] marks.
NOTE
The only restriction placed on the login shell is that the command name must be listed in /etc/shells, unless the invoker is the superuser,
and then any value may be added. An account with a restricted login shell may not change her login shell. For this reason, placing /bin/rsh
in /etc/shells is discouraged since accidentally changing to a restricted shell would prevent the user from ever changing her login shell
back to its original value.
FILES
/etc/passwd
User account information.
/etc/shells
List of valid login shells.
/etc/login.defs
Shadow password suite configuration.
SEE ALSO chfn(1), login.defs(5), passwd(5).
shadow-utils 4.5 01/25/2018 CHSH(1)