add path to profile

tired of typing the entire path to your script , or changing your path every time you log in , why not update the path on your system

type in cd ~ …this will put you in the home directory

in centos , you should find a .bash_profile file in the home directory

you just need to add to the path variable in this file

[root@kbrk2 ~]# cat .bash_profile

.bash_profile

Get the aliases and functions

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/kafka/kafka_2.12-2.5.0/bin

export PATH

once this file is modified , you can run source .bash_profile to make it active for the current session