.profile, where is it??

[Mandy]

Hi All,

I am confused about where my .profile is.  I know where it SHOULD
be....and i know i have to do a ls -a to see it....but when i do that it
is not there...yes when i try and creat a file named .profile it asks if
i want to overwrite the one that is there....so what is the deal with
that? Running RH5.2 with bash shell.

Mandy