title: .profile not working from terminal in mac
body: <p>I had a .profile file that I was reading and using aliases from in my terminal, but at some point the aliases stopped working for no clear reason (other commands were still working).</p>
  
  <p>Thinking to make a quick fix, I deleted (rm) and recreated my .profile file in my user directory. There are no bash_profiles or others in existence that I can see, at leasts in that directory.</p>
  
  <p>The new .profile did not work. I tried restarting the terminal and the computer.</p>
  
  <p>Now, the commands that worked in the original .profile are still run although I cannot find the file, and the new .profile gives:</p>
  
  <p>No such file or directory(last half of a filename sourced here)
  and: command not found messages</p>
  
  <p>The .profile file only contains path updates, aliases, and files to source. 
  Trying to source the .profile file also gives the error messages above.</p>
  
  <p>However, typing in the path updates, aliases, and files to source directly into the terminal by copying them from the .profile file works fine.</p>
  
  <p>Help?</p>