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I recently installed Julia on my iMac running High Sierra. Julia seems to want to run in the Z-shell whereas I normally use bash. I haven't run Julia today but my Term2 windows are screwed up since installing Jullia. It used to be that when I was using iTerm, the command line listed the name of my current directory followed by the cursor. Now when I use it the command line contains a long character string. If I run bash, the command line returns to normal. Any hints on how to get iTerm from starting in the Z-shell. An image of the terminal has too small print to read... The cursor line used to look like so:

my_user_name/computer_name:/Volumes/MyBook/Applications$

but now it looks like:

\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[32m\]\h:\[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]$
Natsfan
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  • Julia runs in any shell. ITerm Profiles->Open Profiles shoes the setup. If you edit the profile it shows which shell you are using and the start parameters – mmmmmm Aug 02 '18 at 21:14
  • I tried that but there is no mention of the z-shell. – Natsfan Aug 02 '18 at 21:25
  • How are you starting bash rather than zsh in iTerm – mmmmmm Aug 02 '18 at 21:29
  • Yes iTerm sources a .bash_profile file and i've set options somewhere to start in bash shell. Its been working fine for years until I installed Julia. – Natsfan Aug 02 '18 at 21:37
  • i just fixed this in the preferences for iTerm and Terminal. I changed from login shell to command. In the command box I put /bin/bash. This fixed the problem. I'd still like to know why I have to do that... – Natsfan Aug 02 '18 at 21:47
  • It that case see https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/119714/237 Also did you use .profile as your startup file? The particular Julia install might have edited the correct file .bash_profile – mmmmmm Aug 02 '18 at 21:53
  • i downloaded a week old .bash_profile from a recent Time Macine backup. No difference. – Natsfan Aug 02 '18 at 21:59
  • WHat does echo $TERM show in both cases – mmmmmm Aug 02 '18 at 22:01
  • xterm-256color in all cases... – Natsfan Aug 02 '18 at 22:10

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