Source - problem with the file

[Hlektra]

Hello

I am studying an open source program written in TCL, using CGI. My knowledge in TCL is limited, so if anyone could help me understand the following code i'd be very grateful.

source .config

I know what "source" does. What I don't know is where this file is. I have searched my entire system (Suse) for the file ".config" but it wont come up. It is not inside the program's folders or inside any of my system's forders.

If i try to rename the file into let's say ".confi" and run the program again, an error occurs that says "The specified file does not exist". But it doesn't frecking say where it does not exist!

If you need more details please ask me.

Thanks in advance.

 

[feherke]

Hi

My knowledge in TCL is limited [gray](...)[/gray] It is not inside the program's folders

Excuse me if I am wrong, but from the following I deduce that it could be a typical beginner mistake. Files with names starting wit a period ( . ) are considered hidden files and most file handling tools ( including [tt]ls[/tt] ) are not showing them by default. Or another common mistake could be to use a database based search tool ( including [tt]locate[/tt] ) to search, but its database was not rebuilt since you installed the program.

Anyway, you did not specified which open source program it is, or how you searched your entire system. So for now we can only guess.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[anarchistx]

This could be a duhh answer, but did you try:
> ls -a
command? It shows files that start with (.)