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Originally Posted by
agasamapetilon
I decided to create a .profile document...
document insinuates you are coming from Windows?
$HOME/.profile is exactly the right file where one would set its environment for Bourne Shell compatible login shells,
while the also mentioned $HOME/.shrc file by convention usually holds shell alias and function definitions.
Not to confuse you, but beware. If your login shell was bash and there was a .bash_profile in your $HOME,
then Bash would rather read its contents.
So it is always advisable to consult the man page of the respective login shell one uses,
and especially the FILES section therein.
However, for Bourne compatible shells, .profile is the common denominator.