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problems with bash

Hi. I'm really a newbie trying to make my new Mac (OS 10.3) run some science programs under the X11 environment.
I have been trying to install GDE2.2. In short, after several attempts I came to the URL http://www.mutatedmonkeys.com/factsl...es/000830.html. And I thought that was my lucky day.
In fact, now GDE is running, but bash will not do such thing as list, copy, remove, etc; while still working for cd, pico, and so on.
I had to copy .profile, .xinitrc and .Xresources to my $HOME directory in order to get GDE running. Could that be the problem? Is there any way to erase .profile from my root directory? Any workaround?
Best wishes
 
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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
bash(1) GNU Bash-4.0 2004 Apr 20 RBASH(1)