ITerm/Zsh Not Reading. Bashrc Or. Bash_Profile
In ~/. Bash_Profile I Have: If [ -F ~/. Bashrc ]; Then Source ~/. Bashrc Fi in ~/. Bashrc I Have Some Aliases When I Load a New iTerm Window, My Aliases Do Not...
In ~/.bash_profile
I have :
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi
In ~/.bashrc I have some aliases
When I load a new iTerm window, my aliases do not work. If I source ~/.bashrc they work. If I source ~.bash_profile they work.
Isn't at least one of these supposed to be sourced automatically?
What might be causing it not to work properly?
3 Answers
The answer is simple, almost evident in the question. Here's why:
The shell zsh is not bash, it is a different shell. zsh will not use the default files built for bash: .bashrc or .bash_profile. These two files are startup configuration files for bash. zsh has its own startup configuration files.
You can find out more about them here on the zsh intro page:
There are five startup files that zsh will read commands from:
$ZDOTDIR/.zshenv $ZDOTDIR/.zprofile $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc $ZDOTDIR/.zlogin $ZDOTDIR/.zlogout
You had mentioned your aliases don't work, to fix this, apply your aliases here like so:
~/.zshrc
alias sz='source ~/.zshrc' # Easily source your ~/.zshrc file.
alias ls='pwd; ls --color' # Alias 'ls' to: pwd + ls + color.
If you are using zsh then to force source .bash_profile
in ~/.zshrc add the line below
source ~/.bash_profile
P.S - I havent investigated whether this can cause any problem.
Copy the lines from ~/.bash_profile to ~/.zshrc
cat ~/.bash_profile >> ~/.zshrc
And open a new terminal tab/window or use source ~/.zshrc
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