Re: . /export/home/oracle/.profile

From: Radoulov, Dimitre <dradoulov_at__gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 00:50:00 +0200
Message-ID: <44fa0aea$0$75032$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>

>> I want know what it does and the logic of .
>> /export/home/oracle/.profile .
>> Please help me out.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> When you "dot in" something ( example . /somedirectory/somefile ) into
> your unix environment this will add into your current unix environment
> the value of any environment variables that the file contains.
[...]

... and execute any command(s) the file contains in the current shell.

Regards
Dimitre Received on Sat Sep 02 2006 - 17:50:00 CDT