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CodingTeen2017
Asked: 2017-02-24 04:01:29 +0800 CST

How to view profile on Linux

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I'm trying to do this part of my assessment:
Show and explain the contents of the profile file.

But I cannot open it. I tried ls- profil, but that didn't work.

Edit: Melebius helped me to find the answer. Thanks dude!

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  1. Best Answer

    The correct filename of the current user’s profile is ~/.profile (where ~ is a shortcut for the current user’s home directory).

    You can use the command cat to just print the file out:

    cat ~/.profile

    For long files, the file viewer less can come in handy:

    less ~/.profile

    (Press q to quit less.)

    Of course, you can open the file using your favorite editor, e.g. vi (a command-line based editor) or gedit (the default GUI text editor in Ubuntu) to view (and modify) it.

    vi ~/.profile
gedit ~/.profile

    (Type :q Enter to quit vi.)

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