how to retrieve profile in ubuntu 18.04

Question

I accidentally deleted the .profile in my Ubuntu 18.04 today. How to retrieve this.

regards,

Which .profile file did you delete? your own user's $HOME/.profile or something else? — steeldriver, Mar 25 '20 at 16:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '20 at 18:54

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You can copy the default $HOME/.profile that your user account was created with from the /etc/skel directory:

cp -i /etc/skel/.profile ~/

Obviously you will lose any customisations that you made to the file.

answered Mar 25 '20 at 18:54

steeldriver

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