[wellylug] .profle info

[Grant McLean]

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 09:32 +1200, John Durham 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'?

The only thing special about a filename that starts with a dot is that
the 'ls' command won't show it by default (use 'ls -a' to list all
files).

> Whatever the answer, where is such a file likely to be stored?

Your home directory will have a number of files like .bashrc or .profile.

If you're looking at your home directory with a graphical file manager,
you may need to turn on an option to show 'hidden' files.  In this
context, 'hidden' means 'starts with a dot'.

Cheers
Grant