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What program are you using to read names.txt ? If you are still on Cygwin, the file will be in unix text file format and unsuitable for viewing in Windows Notepad.

I noticed you are using cygwin. Can it be that your files have been created in dos format and they end with carriage return-line feed. If so your second file is trying to source ./my_var.profile<CR>,...

it should be ./first.profile

there is no . before file-name