I am running a script which is echoing the environment variables in .profile file and than I am running the script, but I am getting following error
I tried following:
node@node-virtual-machine:~$ cat env.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo 'export JAVA_HOME=/home/node/jdk1.6.0_45' >> /home/node/.profile
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin' >> /home/node/.profile
cd /home/node/
source .profile
node@node-virtual-machine:~$ sh env.sh
sudo: source: command not found
How to execute .profile within a script?
If
.profile
exists as/home/node/.profile
, you have all that is necessary.Instead of:
You should run:
Besides instead of:
use:
Your script says
/bin/bash
at the top but you run it withsh
which is probablydash
on your system. You probably are already running Bash at the prompt, so you should saysource env.sh
instead ofsh env.sh
if you want the variables to be exposed to your terminal.