No .bash_profile on my Mac

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I'm trying to develop using Eclipse/Maven on my Mac and while setting environment variables there is no .bash_profile. I do ls -a and still not there. I see a .bash_history and .bash_sessions. Where am I supposed to set my JAVA_HOME and PATH?

Thank you!

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3 Answers

In your terminal:

touch ~/.bash_profile; open ~/.bash_profile

Then make your edits and save. This is generic so make sure your path is correct in the above example.

user_35819320

For anyone else stumbling up on this after Mac Catalina,

Starting CATALINA the default shell is zsh. The profile file name for zsh is ~/.zprofile.

To setup bash as your default:

  1. Open terminal
  2. Goto preferences and choose "Shell opens with"
  3. Click on "Command(complete path)" and type "/bin/bash" to start bash shell
user_39513960

On terminal, enter this command: chsh -s /bin/bash

This will change shell for the current user to bash.

After that, you can see .bash_profile on the root folder.

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