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    ~/.profile is to configure your login session, not your shell. Only the login shell reads that file. bash customisation goes in ~/.bashrc Commented Nov 14, 2017 at 21:53
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    @StéphaneChazelas Sorry, Mac user here. Thanks for the comment. I updated my solution. Is that better? Commented Nov 14, 2017 at 22:12
  • I saved it in .bashrc. Had to reopen a terminal to load that config. Now it works, thanks to both very much Commented Nov 14, 2017 at 22:19
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    @HrvojeT If you have the time and the inclination, you might want to create a temporary user and populate all of their shell initialization and profile files with echo statements, and then open shell windows in various ways, e.g. launch your terminal application, open a new tab, open a new window, run a command in a subshell, etc. That way you can watch and see the order in which the different files are loaded. I remember finding that very instructive. Commented Nov 14, 2017 at 22:21
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    @Arrow Hmmm. I don't see anything there that says that ~/bin has been designated for user scripts, except by recent versions of Ubuntu. Commented Nov 15, 2017 at 6:14