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Active reading [<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_%28Unix_shell%29> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_clause_structure#Run-on_sentences> (see also <https://twitter.com/PeterMortensen/status/1199839973215739907>)].
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If you don't mind losing the history of your current shell terminal, you could also do

bash -l

That would fork your shell and open up another child process of bash. The -l parameter tells bashBash to run as a login shell, this. This is required, because .bash_profile.bash_profile will not run as a non-login shell, for. For more infoinformation about this, read here.

If you want to completely replace the current shell, you can also do:

exec bash -l

The above will not fork your current shell, but replace it completely, so when you type exit it will completely terminate, rather than dropping you to the previous shell.

If you don't mind losing the history of your current shell terminal you could also do

bash -l

That would fork your shell and open up another child process of bash. The -l parameter tells bash to run as a login shell, this is required because .bash_profile will not run as a non-login shell, for more info about this read here

If you want to completely replace the current shell you can also do:

exec bash -l

The above will not fork your current shell but replace it completely, so when you type exit it will completely terminate, rather than dropping you to the previous shell.

If you don't mind losing the history of your current shell terminal, you could also do

bash -l

That would fork your shell and open up another child process of bash. The -l parameter tells Bash to run as a login shell. This is required, because .bash_profile will not run as a non-login shell. For more information about this, read here.

If you want to completely replace the current shell, you can also do:

exec bash -l

The above will not fork your current shell, but replace it completely, so when you type exit it will completely terminate, rather than dropping you to the previous shell.

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If you don't mind losing the history of your current shell terminal you could also do

bash -l

That would fork your shell and open up another child process of bash. The -l parameter tells bash to run as a login shell, this is required because .bash_profile will not run as a non-login shell, for more info about this read here

If you want to completely replace the current shell you can also do:

exec bash -l

The above will not fork your current shell but replace it completely, so when you type exit it will completely terminate, rather than dropping you to the previous shell.