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Yes, i think the correct way is to ask him to move his scripts somewhere upstream. ~/.profile IMHO is a good place to put that.
– Dzintars
Commented Feb 29, 2020 at 19:32
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Just remember that ~/.profile is not sourced by bash if ~/.bash_profile exists. It's a peculiarity of bash where it has a built-in preference for its own (i.e. .bash_profile) over posix (.profile) for its environment setup files.
– Iyad K
Commented Feb 29, 2020 at 19:40

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