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How to edit $PATH on MacOS Catalina (Zsh)?

I open terminal and use echo $PATH I get back: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin/ I'm confused because my .zshrc, .zsh, .bash_profile, .bashrc, and .profile all have ...
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What is the way to set UTF-8 or other encoding in .zshrc on MacOS Catalina?

Whatever settings I put in .zshrc and source the file, nothing changes in the locale output. How do I change these settings on Catalina?
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Running python script without typing its `.py` extension

I'm using Zsh on MacOS Catalina. I was reading Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and in it the author runs mapIt.py simply by typing mapit into the terminal. In order to do this I added a ...
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Unable to revert default shell from zsh to bash in macOS/Catalina: "chsh: no changes made"

I have a new catalina system and need compatibility with traditional linux. bash is a must. Following various references I did chsh -s /bin/bash But not too happy: (base) 19:44:28// $chsh -s /...
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How to correctly export env variables containing spaces in ZSH

Add an env variable containing spaces to ~/.zshrc export SKIP="-Dskip1 -Dskip2" export SKIP_NO_SPACES="-Dskip3" Try to use it set -x mvn $SKIP $SKIP_NO_SPACES The command that is being ...
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