[OS X TeX] Setting TEXINPUTS/BIBINPUTS on Catalina

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Oct 18, 2020, at 3:27 AM, Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> On 18/10/20 10:09, Joseph Wright wrote:
>> I want to export
>> 
>>     BIBINPUTS=~/Literature//;
>> 
>> which I used to be able to do from my .bash_rc, but can't any more.
> 
> Try .zshrc instead. The default shell on catalina is zsh.
> 
> -- 
> Martin
> 

Howdy,

I think it's ~/.zprofile. I believe you can get it to source your .profile by putting the line

[[ -e ~/.profile ]] && emulate sh -c 'source ~/.profile'

in a ~/.zprofile file. If you were using a ~/.bash_profile you can copy it to ~/.profile or change the line.

Personally, I'm most familiar with the bash shell so I made it my default. You then get an annoying notification that you should change to the zsh but there is a link which gives you a command (I don't remember what it is since you need only run it once) to get rid of that message. Aaahhh... back to familiar territory.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)