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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting What is .profile in unix ? Post 87205 by guhas on Friday 21st of October 2005 05:41:34 AM
Old 10-21-2005
Power What is .profile in unix ?

1. What is .profile in unix ?
2. What are they used for ?
 

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