Why do I need to source bash_profile every time

Question

I have installed Hadoop and every time I want to run it, first I have to do this:

source ~/.bash_profile

or it won\'t recognize the command

Answer 1

Go to “Preferences/Profiles then look in the right window and find “shell”.

Once in that if your “Startup Run Command” hasn’t been turned on. Click the box to turn it on and in the command section type:

(If you made a .zsh file)

source .zsh ; clear 

(If you made a .bash_profile)

source .bash_profile ; clear

Doing this ; clear

Will clear your terminal to a new page so that you don’t see your terminal display:

“Last login: etc 
User@user-Mac ~ % source .zsh

If you typed the commands as I said you should just get this:

User@user-Mac ~ % 

That way you will be greeted with a clear page with no extra jumbo. Also to make sure that your .zsh or .bash_profile aliases work type the following command to see a list of your custom aliases:

Alias 

One alias I like to do is

alias LL=“ls -la”

This will display a tree or the directory you are in as well as hidden files.

If this helped you or you have questions let me know!