Reseting Bash

The Zsh shell does not use Bash dot files (e.g. ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, etc.). Zsh uses its own dot file (~/.zshrc) located in your home directory, and it does not exist by default, so you have to create it with a text editor.

At minimum, it might look like the following:

export PATH=".:$HOME:$PATH"
# if using any added tools in /usr/local/bin whose name may conflict with any in $PATH
# export PATH=".:$HOME:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
PS1="%m: %~ %% "
# for command-line editing using vi/vim syntax
bindkey -v

Once you have saved this file in your home directory as .zshrc, you can invoke those exports to the current Zsh shell as:

source ~/.zshrc

and subsequently, everytime you open a new Terminal window, Zsh will process the contents of that file.

erenaktas wrote:

I am not trying to change shells.

I am trying to reset my environment variables such as PATH in my startup configuration permanently.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/476246/when-i-use-zsh-how-do-i-set-path-in-etc-profile-d

https://medium.com/@youngstone89/setting-up-environment-variables-in-mac-os-28e5941c771c

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22465332/setting-path-environment-variable-in-osx-permanently

https://mamk2118.medium.com/setting-up-environment-variables-in-macos-mojave-and-mac-os-catalina-27ea1bb032f3

You are welcome.

erenaktas wrote:

I cant find to delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist to reset my bash on BigSur.

Can you please guide me?

In essence,

I want to reset my shell startup configuration on BigSur.

To see you current shell:

 echo $SHELL

To see your options:

 cat /etc/shells

To change shells, for ex. bash:

chsh -s /bin/bash

To change shells, for ex. zsh:

chsh -s /bin/zsh