Mandy,
Bash uses ~/.bash_profile for login shalls, and ~/.bashrc for
interactive shells, so perhaps that is why you can't find ~/.profile.
As to why you can't creat it without overwriting it, to achieve
inconsistent results, it is generally necessary to do something
inconsistent. What it is may not be immediately evident. :-)
Are you in the directory you think you're in?
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Mandy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am confused about where my .profile is. I know where it SHOULD
> be....and i know i have to do a ls -a to see it....but when i do that
it
> is not there...yes when i try and creat a file named .profile it asks
if
> i want to overwrite the one that is there....so what is the deal with
> that? Running RH5.2 with bash shell.
>
> Mandy
>
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