Newbie_Arnav wrote:
can you please tell what do yo mean by "edit .bash_profile"?? how to to do it? my terminal here shows this?? i want to use the commands but it does not respondans shows this. please reply
What are you trying to do?
What problem are you trying to solve.
The bash shell, will look for one of the following shell initialization scripts
.bash_profile
.bash_login
.profile
None of these files exist by default. If any of them exist it is because someone or some installation process created them.
/bin/ls -a $HOME
will show all the files in your home directory (aka Folder).
If you wish to actually edit a file, such as .bash_profile from an editor session you would use something like:
/usr/bin/pico .bash_profile
which is the command I showed above. pico can also create the file if it does not currently exist.
But without knowing what you are trying to do, I cannot give you much additional information.