Terminal on Bill Glover

Setting the PATH variable on macOS with ZSH

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:30:00 +0000

The behaviour of the PATH variable in ZSH on macOS can be confusing. If you follow ZSH guidance, you should set your PATH variable in ~/.zshenv.

“ .zshenv is sourced on all invocations of the shell, unless the -f option is set. It should contain commands to set the command search path, plus other important environment variables. .zshenv should not contain commands that produce output or assume the shell is attached to a tty.”

Conveying Context at the Terminal

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 06:00:00 +0000

I’ve run a few workshops recently that have involved streaming live terminal sessions to remote participants. During these workshops, we explore how different personas interact with Kubernetes.

The Infrastructure Admin - provides compute and storage
The DevOps Engineer - provides clusters and capabilities
The Application Developer - builds applications

These workshops are good fun to run, but it is difficult to balance the narrative with typing into the terminal. As we work through the topics, we switch between various personas. Participants often try to relate what they see on screen to the role they perform at work?

OSX Terminal.app Ignoring $PATH Variable

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:06:51 +0000

Over the last couple of days I lost the ability to copy and paste from Vim using the macOS system clipboard. I hadn’t knowingly changed my Vim configuration and the only major change I’d made was to upgrade to macOS Catalina. This post points outlines how I resolved the issue and points the finger squarely and Full Disk Access on Catalina.

TLDR: Granting Full Disk Access to Terminal.app resolved the problem.