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Bash Profile

(Bash Startup Files)

<meta charset="utf-8">"Bash will attempt to execute a set of startup files depending on how it was invoked. See the<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Bash-Startup-Files">Bash Startup Files</a>section of the GNU Bash manual for a complete description." -https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bash

The most common of which is bash_profile.

Here, users usually define the paths of various command line programs.

like:

• NVM
• PHP
• etc.

On OSX and Ubuntu (including Ubuntu on WSL), this file is located at:~/.bash_profile

"~" is a shortcut in it's self, referring to the home directory for that user

System-wide changes can be made in /etc/bashrc

These files can be edited with any editor that you can grant admin rights.

...But the quick and dirty way is sudo nano ~/.bash_profile or sudo nano /etc/bashrc