title: Having trouble with Ubuntu .profile and .bashrc
body: <p>I am new to linux. I am currently going through a setup tutorial for Kafka online. It says to add the path of my kafka bin directory as follows to my .profile file which I did as below:</p>
  
  <pre><code># ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
  # This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
  # exists.
  # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
  # the files are located in the bash-doc package.
  # the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
  # for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
  #umask 022
  
  # if running bash
  if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
  # include .bashrc if it exists
  if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
  . "$HOME/.bashrc"
  fi
  fi
  
  # set PATH so it includes user's private bin directories
  DOCKER="/usr/local/bin/docker-compose"
  PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH:$DOCKER"
  # Ubuntu make installation of Ubuntu Make binary symlink
  PATH=/home/username/.local/share/umake/bin:$PATH
  cat ~/.ssh/config.d/* &gt; ~/.ssh/config
  PATH="$PATH:/home/username/softwares/kafka/kafka_2.11-1.0.0/bin"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After that, i did an echo on $PATH, I could see the kafka path added to the PATH. Post which, i typed kafka and then tab, then i could see kafka related optional commands. </p>
  
  <p>The tutorial then tells to edit .bashrc file. It was already there. It was quite a big file. I added at the end of the file the below line(as per the tutorial):</p>
  
  <pre><code>. ~/.profile
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After that, i opened another terminal as per the tutorial to see that I am still getting all the kafka related options after kafka and tab. I saw that on the terminal, i was not getting my username and it was a blank terminal window. I then edited the .bashrc to remove the line I added and then tried to open a new terminal, and I could see my username on the terminal. Then i closed all the terminals. Opened a fresh one and typed kafka and tab, and I didnt get any options as earlier. I then opened the .profile file and i could see the kafka path still added. Then, I tried to echo $PATH, and this time, the kafka path was not there. </p>
  
  <p>I am really confused what is happening here. Could you please explain a bit and let me know how to load the .profile every time i open a terminal and that why do I not see the kafka path anymore , when i do an echo on PATH.</p>