variables in .profile

[wilburke]

Setting up my environment for program building using .profile doesn' t work (eg extending the $PATH).
It seems that appending a string to a variable just overwrites the initial value of the variable.
My .profile contains following 2 lines:
export TST="this is my first string"
export TST2="$TST after expanding"
After login in (I use puTTY) I get following values:
$ echo $TST
this is my first string
$ echo $TST2
after expanding string

Can anybody help me?

 

[priller]

Works fine with 10.5.4 & bash.

gamma:~ priller$ echo $TST
this is my first string
gamma:~ priller$ echo $TST2
this is my first string after expanding

 

[wilburke]

Works fine with 10.5.4 & bash.

gamma:~ priller$ echo $TST
this is my first string
gamma:~ priller$ echo $TST2
this is my first string after expanding

I'm working on 10.5.2

 

[wilburke]

BTW: how can I execute my (modified) .profile without logging out and logging in again?

 

[pilotError]

You should be able to type

. ./profile

at the command line. the ".<space>" tells it to execute in your current shell.