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Ultimate linux CLI noob question: "How to create a plain text file within xterm?"
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TA-t3
2008-09-11 , 09:45
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The busybox shell uses the .profile if one exists, but it doesn't come with one. So to answer Derek, there's no original .profile we could post for you..
However, it's mostly used to add to the PATH. You have your scripts in $HOME/MyDocs/Scripts/, don't you? So you would maybe want something like
PATH=$PATH:/home/user/Mydocs/Scripts
For myself, I have manually installed some non-busybox versions of some commands in /usr/local/bin which I want to override the busybox ones (those in /usr/bin), so I put /usr/local/bin first in the path:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
And I also like to see all directories and files, even those starting with a dot, when I use the 'ls' command. So I have:
alias ls='ls -AC'
(Note that in general environment variables must be 'exported', e.g.
VARIABLE="value"
export VARIABLE
but PATH is already exported so it's not needed.)
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