Need assistance - zsh on Mac to run pyILPer

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Starting with macOS 10.15 (Catalina) Apple changed the shell from bash to zsh. This mean that the configurations filenames has changed.

Configuration files for bash (Bourne Again Shell) are

• System files: /etc/profile & /etc/bashrc.
• User files: ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, ~/.profile & ~/.bashrc.
  

Configuration files for zsh (Z Shell) are:

• System files: /etc/zshenv, /etc/zprofile, /etc/zshrc, /etc/zlogin & /etc/zlogout.
• User files: ~/.zshenv, ~/.zprofile, ~/.zshrc, ~/.zlogin & ~/.zlogout.
  

Note: ~ mean your home folder in macOS/Unix/BSD/Linux. (macOS: /Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/)

For some reason Anaconda is still updating one of the bash configuration files (~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile) instead of one of the zsh configurations files (~/.zprofile)

What you need to do is copy the configuration data from the bash configuration file to the zsh configuration file.

The configuration section to copy should look like the following:

Code:

# added by Anaconda3 YYYY.MM installer
# >>> conda init >>>
# !! Contents within this block are managed by 'conda init' !!
__conda_setup="$(CONDA_REPORT_ERRORS=false '/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/anaconda3/bin/conda' shell.bash hook 2> /dev/null)"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    \eval "$__conda_setup"
else
    if [ -f "/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh" ]; then
        . "/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh"
        CONDA_CHANGEPS1=false conda activate base
    else
        \export PATH="/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"
    fi
fi
unset __conda_setup
# <<< conda init <<<

Note 1: scrolling is needed to completely see the above section
Note 2: do not forget to replace YOUR_USER_NAME by your actual home folder name
Note 3: you will need to start a new shell to apply the updated configuration
Note 4: to see the new configuration, from the command line type: export [RETURN] // you should see the string /Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/anaconda3/bin in your path variable

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