[wellylug] .profle info

Phillip Hutchings sitharus at gmail.com
Fri May 13 09:34:57 NZST 2005


On 13/05/05, John Durham <johndurh at spunge.org> wrote:
> The documentation I'm studying mentions adding creating aliases and
> adding them to the .profile file. As a past DOS and windows user, I'm
> not used to file names that begin with dots. Is such a file implying
> some variation such as 'user.profile'?
> 
> Whatever the answer, where is such a file likely to be stored?

In your home directory, just edit ~/.profile Files/directories
beginning with a . are hidden from the normal ls output, so they're
frequently used for configuration files, such as .bashrc, .htaccess,
etc.

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