Bash configuration files in macOS
In this article, we will discuss how to create, delete, and edit bash profiles in macOS.
Create .bash_profile
To create .bash_profile, open a terminal and move to your home directory using the following command.
cd ~/
Now you can create using following command .bash_profile.
touch .bash_profile
Edit .bash_profile
Now, let's edit it .bash_profile. We can edit this file in the terminal.
To do this, we need to execute the following command.
vi ~/.bash_profile
If .bash_profilethe file is large, it may open in the default mode for editing in the terminal. Here we can use TextEdit for this purpose.
First, open a text editor such as TextEdit, open the file and move to your home directory. If the file is hidden, press command + shift + to unhide the file.
You can use the following line of code to open .bash_profile using the text editor TextEdit.
open -a TextEdit.app ~/.bash_profile
Delete .bash_profile
To delete .bash_profile, open finder application in macOS and go to your home directory. If the file is hidden, then unhide the file.
Then, select the bash profile and press command + delete to delete the file.
Please note that all methods discussed here are targeted at the macOS environment.
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