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Mac change terminal emulator preferences to allow login shell

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This program then looks for two files in your userâ��s. bash_profile file, this is a startup file that is read whenever you open a new Terminal window. Remote diagnosis is always fraught with misunderstandings and failure, but I believe you might be adding the path to the tool rather than the path to the directory containing the tool? If you're not familiar with a. macOS Cataline When you start up Terminal, it launches a â��login shellâ�� by starting the program /bin/bash. (mind the spaces) Which is a shorter way to do the same thing. Refresh bash_profile from the users home directory: source. It's a special configuration file, and it needs to be placed in your home directory. (and also clearing any customization your current shell may have. This can be executed whenever the user needs to change their role, by running. However, Terminal.app on macOS, does not follow this convention. interactive shells where you login with your user name and password at the beginning. “I believe you might be adding the path to the tool rather than the path to the directory containing the tool?”. Just to clarify, it was pointed out in the comments that zsh is installed as the default shell in MacOS now. So in your case, you would add /usr/local/mongo/bin to the PATH with. Then I hit cmd â��source ~/.bash_profile â��.

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bash_profile will be executed at login shells, i.e. Mac terminal source bash_profile Profile > Startup > Add command �source ~/.bash_profile�.