I see. There is a .bashrc file in my home directory with the line ------------- source /Users/gerard/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc ------------- So I guess installing perl did override my .profile, although I'm not sure how. The "source" man page redirects to "built in".
I'm not quite happy with the way perl installs itself, but at least now I know how to remedy things. Thanks again, -Gerard On Feb 19, 2013, at 8:43 AM, William Muriithi <william.murii...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Gerard, > > Thanks to all. I guess I misunderstood the first post regarding > > .bash.profile. Just to make sure I understand, are you saying I should try > > replacing the .profile with .bash_profile? The shell is bash by default. > > > That's correct. Bash use .bash_profile for user specific changes and > /etc/profile for system wide configurations > > William > > -Gerard > > > > On Feb 18, 2013, at 1:50 AM, Hal Wigoda wrote: > > > > > I said that long time ago. > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Paul Anderson <wackyvor...@me.com> wrote: > > >> Odds are good that the original poster needs to use .bash_profile > > >> instead. > > >> > > >> Sent from my iPhone > > >> > > >> On 2013-02-18, at 2:24 AM, Luca Ferrari <fluca1...@infinito.it> wrote: > > >> > > >>> I suspect this has something to do with the PATH variable and alike. > > >>> And it could have been set up at system wide level, for instance on > > >>> /etc/profile. > > >>> > > >>> Luca > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > > >>> http://learn.perl.org/ > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > > >> http://learn.perl.org/ > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ----------------- > > > Chicago > > > Hal Wigoda > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > >
