Re: [tlug] Bashing away at Unix

[Brian Chandler <brian@example.com>]

Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:40:41 +0900, Brian Chandler
> <brian@example.com> wrote:
>
> > Have I guessed wrong what .profile does?
>
> ICBW but I believe .profile is only read by the Bourne shell. If you're
> using a different shell, such as tcsh then .profile will never be read
> anyway.

Thanks for the (similar) answers... OK, so I found something about the 
bash profile going in .bash_profile ... I also guessed that $SHELL tells 
me what shell I am running in by default, and it says /bin/csh. But the 
current PATH setting isn't the same as in .profile... ah, but it's in 
.cshrc, and here's a curious bit:

# Remove . from path to avoid potential confusion.
set path = (~/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin)

Hmm, very Japanese... but I tried manually:

set PATH=.:$PATH

and now . appears at the front of the PATH value, but it _still_ won't 
run script fred unless I type ./fred  . Um, I'm running out of steam here...

Brian Chandler