Re: [cobalt-users] crontab editor

[Tim Larson <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/8/2004 3:51 PM, Ligard, Vidar felt like writing:

> > I have been looking for ~/.bashrc and cannot find it.  Could 
> > somebody please let me know where it is, and how I add this 
> > line.  Is it one file for the whole RaQ4, or one for each site?
>
>
> There is one for each user, in the user's home directory. The ~ in front of the / simply means 'my home directory'. The . (period) is the first character of the filename, and makes it a hidden file. I think the file is more commonly called .profile
> If you don't have any of these two files, you can just create one of them. 
> Do an 'ls -a' to see hidden files also.

.profile is not the same as .bashrc.  Read the man page on bash (long, I 
know, but it will be edifying) to see how bash reads these files when it 
starts.

Tim

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