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What is the zero-length file named "1" which is created in the home directory whenever a term window is opened?
It happens whether the window is opened from Terminal or iTerm. The date on the file is updated each time a new window is opened.
Any ideas what the purpose might be? Removing it is harmless; it is just recreated the next time a term window opens.
iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 10.15
Absolutely right! But it took a little searching to find it. At the end of my .zshrc is:
if command -v pyenv >/dev/null 2&>1; then
eval "$(pyenv init -)"
fi
And that was what was doing it. I actually checked what the command did, and it was doing nothing worth mentioning. And then I looked closer at the line (which based on something in the pyenv init was installed by homebrew).
Note the redirection: It has 2&>1 rather than 2>&1.
Thanks for pointing me to the answer.
My only guess would be your profile contains a command to create the file. That would explain it happening with both programs.
"1" zero-length file created in home directory when term window opened
