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Old 01-22-2019
Attemp to call the .profile
i have this line of code on my script

Code:
#!/bin/sh

#enable the environment variable thru profile 
. .profile

when i run the script it was unable to find the .profile
Code:
 sh ChgPwd.sh
ChgPwd.sh: line 4: .: .profile: file not found

the file .profile exists
Code:
 ls -altr .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 _wtolentino domain users 700 Jan 11 08:40 .profile

at the command line i can call it
Code:
 . .profile

our OS version is:
Linux 2.6.32-696.10.1.el6.x86_64 GNU/Linux

please help thank you.
Last edited by wtolentino; 01-22-2019 at 02:38 PM..
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Old 01-22-2019
. ~/.profile
This User Gave Thanks to vgersh99 For This Post:
wtolentino
# 3  
Old 01-22-2019
Or alternatives:
. "$HOME"/.profile, or source "$HOME"/.profile
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