Need to source bashrc everytime open in WSL

[byrocuy]

Hello,

I am encountering an issue with zoxide in WSL. I have installed zoxide via install script, added zoxide in the ~/.bashrc, and using it fine after invoking zoxide init. However, when I close the terminal and reopen it, the z command was not found as I tried to use to navigate to a folder. Note that the zoxide command still works, but I have to source ~/.bashrc to be able to use z command again each time I open a new terminal.

I've explored some solutions on Stack Overflow, but none seems to work for me:

• I added source ~/.bashrc to my .bash_profile
• I've tried deleted ~/.bash_profile to remove overriding for ~/.profile (.profile file is not empty)

Note that I kept running zoxide: command not found after applying these steps and restarting the terminal.

Any insights or further suggestions for this problem?

Thank you

[ajeetdsouza]

The issue seems to be that zoxide is not in your PATH. If you've used the install script, you might want to add this line in your bashrc, before you call zoxide:

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

[byrocuy]

Wow, thanks man. It worked now. I thought that simply exporting the path directly in the terminal was sufficient 😅

[ajeetdsouza]

No problem!