Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to execute my .profile which has the path to oracle home. But when I execute it with the below command it says nothing and when I try to echo the ORACLE_HOME I am still in my home directory itself which means it didn't get executed.

Please help how to make sure that .profile is executed perfectly.

I am running the .profile by command

./.profile

I am having the below statement in my .profile

ORACLE_HOME=/apt/opp/oracle/9.2.0
export ORACLE_HOME
echo $ORACLE_HOME

Please suggest.

work on solaris in ksh

tstora3:tmp :./.test
/apt/opp/oracle/9.2.0
tstora3:tmp :more .test
ORACLE_HOME=/apt/opp/oracle/9.2.0
echo $ORACLE_HOME

You need to source .profile. You are currently running .profile, it forks and then returns to the current environment, but losing all the settings it just made. Sourcing .profile will instead bring all those settings back into your current environment.

Do:

That's <dot><space><dot><slash><dot>profile

Nope. Still the same problem.

make sure you have set the execute permission to the file, and also, try this.
~/.profile

Try:
..profile

Hi,
execute . .profile chk there is no execute permission on .profile
we want to set these environment values
u can manually set those values like
export ENV_VAR=ORACLE_HOME
but i think whn u will execute . .profile it will work