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edited May 23, 2017 at 12:40

In your question, you refer to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/902946/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/902946/ as recommending not to source, when the accepted answer the accepted answer prescribes to

Put my PATH setup into a .profile file (because I sometimes use other shells)

Put my Bash aliases and functions into my .bashrc file
Then use this [EDITED: snip code-comments]:

.bash_profile:
  #!/bin/bash
  # echo "Loading ${HOME}/.bash_profile"
  source ~/.profile # Get the paths
  source ~/.bashrc  # get aliases

Putting it all in .profile did not work for me on Linux Mint. Using .bashrc worked fine.

In your question, you refer to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/902946/ as recommending not to source, when the accepted answer prescribes to

Put my PATH setup into a .profile file (because I sometimes use other shells)

Put my Bash aliases and functions into my .bashrc file
Then use this [EDITED: snip code-comments]:

.bash_profile:
  #!/bin/bash
  # echo "Loading ${HOME}/.bash_profile"
  source ~/.profile # Get the paths
  source ~/.bashrc  # get aliases

Putting it all in .profile did not work for me on Linux Mint. Using .bashrc worked fine.

In your question, you refer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/902946/ as recommending not to source, when the accepted answer prescribes to

Put my PATH setup into a .profile file (because I sometimes use other shells)

Put my Bash aliases and functions into my .bashrc file
Then use this [EDITED: snip code-comments]:

.bash_profile:
  #!/bin/bash
  # echo "Loading ${HOME}/.bash_profile"
  source ~/.profile # Get the paths
  source ~/.bashrc  # get aliases

Putting it all in .profile did not work for me on Linux Mint. Using .bashrc worked fine.

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created Apr 6, 2016 at 7:50

serv-inc

In your question, you refer to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/902946/ as recommending not to source, when the accepted answer prescribes to

Put my PATH setup into a .profile file (because I sometimes use other shells)

Put my Bash aliases and functions into my .bashrc file
Then use this [EDITED: snip code-comments]:

.bash_profile:
  #!/bin/bash
  # echo "Loading ${HOME}/.bash_profile"
  source ~/.profile # Get the paths
  source ~/.bashrc  # get aliases

Putting it all in .profile did not work for me on Linux Mint. Using .bashrc worked fine.