I am trying to set the user environment variables in home directory in bash_profile. But in home directory, 1)on running ls -l|grep bash_profile,no file is shown 2)For every session, I have to run source ~/.bash_profile to get the environment variables.What is the other way round to get the variables without running the source command every time. Please suggest the solutions.
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Include that source command into .bashrc to run it automatically when opening a terminal. You only see a hidden file, i.e. a file of which the name starts with a dot, in the output of ls if you use the -a option.
