Personalizeing my Shell....problem with ~./bash_profile

[dman777]

I am trying to perosnalize my Shell. What I am trying to do first is source my .bashrc from .bash_profile and that way I can just modify the .bashrc. The problem is....I load up ~/.bash_profile in nano, and the file loads but it is completely empty. In the book I am useing, Debian Bible, it saids there should be 3 lines:

#if [ -f `/.bashrc ]; then
# .~/.bashrc
#fi

but, again, my ~/.bash_profile file doesn't have those and it is empty.
any suggestions?

thanks,
-dman777

[Grifter]

this is how mine looks, remember to leave the last line empty

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# ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells.
# 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/login.defs
#umask 022

# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
    . ~/.bashrc
fi

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

[dman777]

thanks...that's wierd that mine is empty. at first i thought it was because my profile didn't have permession, but even when i am logged in at root it shows empty.

[Grifter]

root doesn't have a .bash_profile by default