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  • I've given up and just created symlinks and scripts in ~/bin that do the same thing I wanted with aliases. As long as I export my $PATH as ~/bin:$PATH it works well. Commented Sep 19, 2014 at 17:20
  • On Ubuntu (16.04 and newer for sure) if you have a ~/.local/bin when the /etc/profile is processed it will automatically add that to your PATH. You can also just . /etc/profile after creating the folder to get it added to your PATH without a reboot or logout/login. Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 13:17