macOS Catalina 10.15(beta) - Why is ~/.bash_profile not sourced by my shell?

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Reza Dehnavi picture Reza Dehnavi · Jun 27, 2019 · Viewed 61.7k times · Source

I want to set the environment variable I added below the line to ~/.bash_profile and ~/.profile but it didn't work.

export JBOSS_HOME=/Users/{USERNAME}/Desktop/jboss7

Afterward, exit the terminal and open it again when executing echo $JBOSS_HOME I get nothing.
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Answer

alexschu98 picture alexschu98 · Oct 9, 2019

Apple has changed the default shell to zsh. Therefore you have to rename your configuration files. .bashrc is now .zshrc and .bash_profile is now .zprofile.

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