Special Dot Files

.zshrc .zprofile .bash_profile

I'm using Mac with z-shell.

cat ~/.zshrc to see what you already have. Conda uses this one, and you can store your aliases and terminal functions in here. e.g alias ll = ls -la This is also where you want to store source commands to run .sh files or .zsh files.

~/.zprofile to store commands you need to be ran at every terminal session start. e.g. you have a proxy to turn on or something like that.

I don't use ~/.bash_profile anymore, it's for the older Mac shell.

Terminal functions, aliases, dot files etc. are whole topics on their own. There are some posts to illustrate the difference between the dot files, here's one for example https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/388622/zsh-zprofile-zshrc-zlogin-what-goes-where