it works fine. could you please let me know why I can not use . ${HOME}/.profile in the script?
That depends - among other things - on what is in ~/.profile. One conceivable cause could be: $# is the number of (commandline) parameters the current process got. i.e. Consider this script:
The following table shows what it would produce if called in the respective way:
etc.
You called your script without any parameter (as far as i can see) and so the test if (( $# < 1 )) should be true and the then-branch be executed. But inside your ~/profile script you could have a line:
and because you dot-execute the script this makes changes to your current environment, by setting "$1" (the first positional argument) to "X" (notice that instead of "x" any other value would also be possible) - which in turn makes "$#" return 1, not 0 any more.
change your script the following way for debugging:
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