Accidently deleted .profile file from home folder

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1

I accidentally deleted the .profile file from the home folder. If anyone can please provide a sample .profile file or a copy of your own .profile file It would be great. The problem is that I cannot run programs in home bin folder.

I know I shouldn’t have done this. Also I removed it using rm so restoring from trash is not an option.

2

Here you go:

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
	. "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
3

Thanks. I also searched a little on he web and found that there are default files present at /etc/skel.

So, Another solution is :
$ cp /etc/skel/.profile ~/.profile

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