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Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster



On Wednesday 07 April 2021 08:28:49 IL Ka wrote:

> > The first of them will be added but not the other if I
> > . .profile
>
> Try to debug it. First of all, run this from the command line:
>
> [  -d "$HOME/AppImages" ] ; echo $?
>
> result should be "0". If not, then there must be some problem with
> this directory (check name, case, etc).
>
> Then try
>
> set -v
> . .profile
>
> and check output carefully
found it, missing $ sign in .profile.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the +-v effect till now

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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