Refresh .profile

[mrk_1]

Hi,
How to refresh the .profile for one user?

I am new to Unix system admin, Guide me which book or docs I can refer to know all system admin part.

Thanks in advance,
Ram.

[Patrick Wallek]

What do you mean "refresh the .profile for one user"? How do you want to refresh it?

The .profile is a plain text file so it can be edited with vi.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Ram:

If I understand your objective, copy '/usr/newconfig/etc/skel/.profile' as the user's profile; chown it to the user and modify what you need again.

Books and documents? The manpages and (to start):

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90950/index.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[mrk_1]

Hi,

I exported one environment variable for one user. I thought, need to refresh the .profile to reflect the change. Sorry for the confusion. Hope It will take the variable once I export it.

Thank you Patrik and James.

Thanks.
Ram.

[TTr]

If by refresh you mean reload the .profile after modifying it, the safest method is to logout and login again. You can also source it or "dot it" by running ". .profile" (note the first dot and sopace) but with this method only deleted variables do not get null-ed, they are still set.

[Asif Sharif]

Hi Ram,

As per my understanding, you are asking about this command.

$. ./.profile

Dot space dot slash dot profile

OR

the best way is logout and login again. It will load with latest changes done by you.

http://docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90011/profile.4.html

Regards,
Asif Sharif

[Deepak Kr]

$cd
$. ./.profile

[Steven Schweda]

Perhaps:

. ~/.profile

There's no need to do "cd", but without doing
it, "./.profile" (which is exactly equivalent
to ".profile") may not work.

The "./" in "./file_name" is useful if you're
using it as a command (the first token on the
command line), but it's pointless in
". ./file_name".

Sometimes it's helpful to think about what
the shell does with a command, rather than
throwing in every good idea from every
context, whether or not it makes any sense
in the current situation.

[Dennis Handly]

>Steven: Perhaps: . ~/.profile

Correct.

>The "./" in "./file_name" is useful if you're using it as a command, but it's pointless in ". ./file_name".

Quite the contrary, a real shell (ksh(1) and sh-posix(1)) says PATH is used, so all root users must use ./ for sourcing too.

>rather than throwing in every good idea from every context

Sometimes the good ideas are mandatory since the same design was used. :-)