Where can I find the .profile in my user's logon in SCO?
I am needing to edit it, so I can add a PATH to it, so that my PATH loads up in start up.
I have to add:
echo $PATH
... as I have already edited the PATH.
Any help on where to find this .profile file would be greatly appreciated.
Your .profile, like any “dot file” (configuration file whose name begins with a .), is located in your home directory. This is the default directory when you log in, you can use the cd command with no argument to return there, and you can use ~ as a shortcut to it, e.g. you can refer to your .profile as ~/.profile no matter what the current directory is.
If your .profile is absent, the system behaves as if it was empty (this is the case for most dot files). So if you want to add something, create the file if necessary. Use the text editor of your choice.
Adding echo $PATH to .profile is useless, and even a bad idea because it can break remote file copying tools such as rsync. I don't understand what you're trying to do. If you want to add a directory to your PATH, put this in your ~/.profile:
PATH=$PATH:/some/extra/directory
This adds the specified directory last in the search path. Or if you want to add the subdirectory bin from your home directory to the front of the search path:
PATH=~/bin:$PATH
Some antique shells require an additional line export PATH, but I think even on SCO it isn't necessary this millennium.
lib files. So I thought I'd add the file path to the $PATH. This is the PATH that I put in: /opt/K/SKUNK99/Gcc/2.95.2pl1/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5/2.95.2/
– Kevdog777
Jul 19 '12 at 07:20
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and not to the executable search path PATH. If you need more help, copy-paste the error message.
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
Jul 19 '12 at 07:26
LD_LIBRARY_PATH? I just tried cd ~/LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and it said: bash: cd: /u/test/LD_LIBRARY_PATH: No such file or directory
– Kevdog777
Jul 19 '12 at 07:34
PATH. You might add a line like export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/K/SKUNK99/Gcc/2.95.2pl1/usr/local/lib to your .profile. Note that I can't be sure this would solve your problem without seeing the exact error message.
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
Jul 19 '12 at 07:39
In file included from test.c:76: strutil.c:2: string.h: No such file or directory strutil.c:3: stdio.h: No such file or directory In file included from test.c:77: pcutils.h:3: ctype.h: No such file or directory In file included from test.c:78: pcutils.c:2: string.h: No such file or directory pcutils.c:3: stdio.h: No such file or directory test.c:79: time.h: No such file or directory test.c:81: stdio.h: No such file or directory - I will try add the export path now.
– Kevdog777
Jul 19 '12 at 07:44
$PATH to .bashrc - .profile has the following text: bash - echo $PATH
– Kevdog777
Jul 19 '12 at 07:48
.bashrc file: GCCPATH=/opt/K/SKUNK99/Gcc/2.95.2pl1/usr/local PATH=$PATH:$GCCPATH/bin:$GCCPATH/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5/2.95.2
So you say I should add export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/K/SKUNK99/Gcc/2.95.2pl1/usr/local/lib to the .profile file instead of this .bashrc?
– Kevdog777
Jul 19 '12 at 07:53
.profile, not in .bashrc. See http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3052/alternative-to-bashrc/3085#3085 For your compilation issue, you need to pass -I options to the compiler; you can use make CFLAGS='-I /opt/K/SKUNK99/Gcc/2.95.2pl1/usr/local/include' (or whatever the directory containing the headers is), but this should be normally done by setting the right options when compiling gcc. If you still have trouble compiling programs, I suggest that you ask a new question, and be sure to restate all the facts.
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
Jul 19 '12 at 15:27
I had to create the .profile file using the user's login and then I had to add:
echo $PATH
And then I logged off and back on, and it saved it correctly.
