I am new to Ubuntu (or any Linux distro) and I encountered a problem where I cannot cd into etc/profile. I was trying to edit the bashrc so that I could change the colours in my terminal window.
I tried to ls inside the /etc/ file, and I see that there is a profile file there; but I can't enter it.
12 Answers
The reason why this fails is because /etc/profile is not a directory (unless you meant /etc/profile.d, but I don't think you did)
Instead use gedit ~/.profile
If you want to edit .bashrc: gedit .bashrc
By default /etc/profile is not a folder but a file so you can't cd into it.
The global bashrc file is /etc/bash.bashrc
