[wellylug] .profle info

[John Durham]

Thanks for 'ls -a'. The main set of 'invisible' files are now seen, but
the .profile is not there. It clearly needs to be created.
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 09:40 +1200, Grant McLean wrote:
> 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
> 
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