I currently have my default shell set to zsh in terminal. However, upon execution !echo $SHELL in MacVim, it returns /bin/bash, which is obviously the shell that I don't want. How can I set zsh as my default in MacVim?
Note: I've attempted to :set shell=/bin/zsh with no luck.
Although !echo $SHELL may be wrong, :set shell=/bin/zsh does seem to work.
Like you, I also get /bin/bash for !echo $SHELL. But if I try to run a non-existent command:
:!blah
zsh:1: command not found: blah
shell returned 127
So it looks like the setting works, and commands will be executed in the right shell.
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I set up subl command in ~/bin
But I couldn't run the command subl unless I run bash in my terminal. I thought changing default shell from zsh to bash would fix it but it did not. I still have to run bash before subl and this is annoying.
What's the difference between default bash and command bash?
Why subl wouldn't work until I run bash and what should I do to make it work?
I've just started learning actual computer and I know these could be silly questions. Thanks a lot for your help.
TORIs-MacBook-Pro:~ taro$ echo $SHELL
/usr/local/bin/bash
TORIs-MacBook-Pro:~ taro$ subl --help
-bash: subl: command not found
TORIs-MacBook-Pro:~ taro$ bash
bash-5.0$ subl --help
Sublime Text build 3211
Execute ~/bin/subl
Your subl command located in ~/bin (very often equivalent to /home/user/bin) is probably not in zsh's PATH variable :
The command interpreter doesn't look everywhere on you computer when you execute a command, it has a few directories to search in. This list is stored in an environment variable called PATH. It contains something like this :
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
In my case, ~/bin is not in the list, but I can add it for this session only executing PATH="$PATH:~/bin" or include it when zsh starts by adding this line to ~/.zshrc :
PATH="$PATH:~/bin"
Now my PATH is :
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:~/bin
Change the default shell
I'm not sure how it works with macOS X, but on Linux to change the default shell you need to execute this command line :
$ chsh -s /bin/bash
NOTE : the argument following -s must be a path to an interpreter, like bash.
You can found its path with which bash for example.
Then just relaunch your terminal or log out and in.
important : see first comment below about the tilde expansion (thanks to #Charles Duffy)
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I just have installed Catalina on my imac, and I saw a terminal bash looks weird.
It should be ~$ but my terminal shows ~%
Can anyone change this uncommon line(~%) to a normal line(~$)?
Thank you in advance
You can set your PS1 variable in your .bashrc, .bash_profile, or .profile to whatever you want. For example:
export PS1=“\h \W $ “
Will give your hostname, current working directory, followed by the $ you wanted. This can be customized however you like, see this link for a good description.
Also, as chepner mentioned in the comments, you need to set your default shell back to bash. I believe the easiest thing to do is go into your terminal settings, and change your shell:
Terminal > Preferences... > General > Shells open with: Command (complete path): /bin/bash
For a long time, the bash was a default shell in macOS. However, Apple replaced Bourne Again SHell with Z shell for licensing reasons
Set default shell to bash on Macos Catalina. The procedure is as follows:
Open the terminal application.
List available shells by typing cat /etc/shells.
To update your account to use bash run chsh -s /bin/bash.
Close terminal app.
Open the terminal app again and verify that bash is your default shell.
I am seeing a strange problem with the storing of an env in mac os.
I set custom env in ~/.bash_profile
export MYENV=user
Then ran the . ~/.bash_profile and then I printed the env using
printenv then I can see the MYENV=user in the list.
If I close the terminal and reopen and execute printenv then I could not see MYENV in the list still I can see the export MYENV=user in ~/.bash_profile. It seems strange to me.
I am using Mac os High Sierra 10.13.6.
Could some body please tell me what mistake I am doing?
Note that ~/.bash_profile is only run for login shells. From the man page:
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell
with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file
/etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for
~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and exe-
cutes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile
option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.
So if you terminal isn't launching the shell with -l, --login or with $0 having a leading hyphen it won't be a login shell and thus won't read ~/.bash_profile. You may need to reconfigure how your terminal launches the shell if you want the shell to read that config script.
On the other hand ~/.bashrc is always read by an interactive shell. So if you put the export in that script it should do what you expect. It certainly does for me. You replied to Amila that it didn't work for you. So I'd suggest a simple experiment. Open two terminal windows. In one edit ~/.bashrc and add these two lines:
echo running .bashrc
export WTF=abc
In the other window just run bash. It should echo that message and echo $WTF should print abc. Now open a new terminal window. If you don't see that message and the env var isn't present then something is inhibiting reading that config script. Possibly the shell is being run with the --norc flag.
~/.bash_profile is executed before the initial command prompt is returned to the user, which means after a new login. Try adding the environment variable to ~/.bashrc instead.
I have a simple shell script:
#!/bin/bash
echo test
I can execute script successfully as:
./test.sh
and
source ./test.sh
However, the following throws an error:
. ./test.sh
error:
.: Command not found.
What could be causing the error? This works on el capitan (which was an upgrade) but not on sierra. Did something change with the terminal or default shell in the past few major releases?
I'm running macOS 10.12.3 with the default terminal - this is a clean install and NOT an upgrade (upgrades hang onto previous shell settings).
It sounds like you've switched your default shell to something other than bash, probably csh, where (a) . is not built-in command (only source is), and (b) even if it were, you couldn't load Bash code into the current session anyway.
To check what your default shell is, run echo $SHELL.
Run chsh -s /bin/bash to switch back to bash as your default shell.
Hi I've recently installed zsh using cygwin on my Windows machince but when I type zsh to start this I get the following:
GG#GG-PC ~
$ zsh
\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u#\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$
On my mac I am using iTerm2 and this is so much easier to setup on here. Also I am having trouble in setting up the aliases and this is becauses its not setup properly in terms of config file where I can set this up in a separate file.
Any ideas how I can resolve?
It looks like zsh is inheriting the value of PS1 from the previous shell. The PS1 environment variable sets the shell prompt, and zsh used a different format for prompt substitutions than other shells. Try entering the following command after you start zsh:
PS1=$'%{\e]0;%d\a%}\n%F{green}%n#%m %F{yellow}%d%f\n%# '
If that works, add that line to your ~/.zshrc file.
That's also probably a good place to put your aliases.
There might be an issue because you launch zsh from bash actually and not cygwin.
One thing you can do is to launch zsh as the starting shell of mintty (the window that wraps your shell)
Create a shortcut with this inside:
c:\<cygwin-folder>\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico /usr/bin/zsh --login -
Yo need to update .zshrc with your required theme and then
source .zshrc