Command not found in zsh, but found in bash

I'm using zsh on ubuntu and I created a symlink for bat as so: ln -s /usr/bin/batcat /home/user_name/.local/bin/bat hitting ls -l from ~/.local/bin shows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 tux tux 15 May 19 13:47 bat -> /usr/bin/batcat Now from any directory(even in ~/.local/bin), If I run bat, I get command not found: bat. Also running ~/.local/bin doesn't work. However, running ./bat(from ~/.local/bin) does work. Running batcat also works. echo $PATH shows that ~/.local/bin is in the path What could be going wrong here? no symlink works, bat is just an example P.S. In bash, things are working as expected