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I started getting this weird line every time I open a new terminal tab.
3='cd -3'
ruby-2.1.5 ➜ /Volumes/dev_directory
It started about a month ago and I've looked in the
~/.profile
~/.bashrc
~/.zshrc
nothing....
where else can I look for it?
That output looks a lot like something called alias with fewer parameters than intended.
Try running
echo | $SHELL -ix | grep alias
to find whatever is printing the annoying line, then grep for that in your home directory, /etc, perhaps /usr/share, and wherever else you might have put something that influences your shell.
(As for that command: -x prints a trace of all commands that are executed, and -i ensures you get a login shell (i.e. your shell's rc and profile files are loaded) even though input is coming from a pipe.)
bashhave you looked at/etc/bashrc/etc/profile, and the files in/etc/bash_completion.d? – Anthon Jun 23 '15 at 8:17env SHELLOPTS=xtrace /path/to/Terminal– Stéphane Chazelas Jun 23 '15 at 8:27$SHELL -x. – n.st Jun 23 '15 at 8:45$SHELL. It may very well start it as a login shell. In which case,bash -lxmay be better. – Stéphane Chazelas Jun 23 '15 at 8:58env SHELLOPTS=xtracecan also be useful in that it activatesxtracealso for bash scripts (and on OS/X sh is bash) called from those bashrc files. – Stéphane Chazelas Jun 23 '15 at 10:33