I want to use iTerm with my default bash terminal because there is a lot of customization that i have done to my .bash_profile and I don't want to lose it or perform all the hard work again.
How to use iTerm along with the default bash terminal
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Best Answer
You are mixing up a couple of things here. Note there is no such thing as bash terminal.
iTerm and Terminal are applications that start up a defined program - by default it is
/usr/bin/login. This program starts a shell (listed in/etc/shells) by default this is/bin/bash.bash reads
~/.bash_profileif it is started by login (or with a-lparameter), bash does not care if it is started by iTerm or Terminal. (There might be environment variables set depending on what starts bash e.g. ITERM_* from iTerm and TERM_PROGRAM by both)iTerm and Terminal store their defaults in different places (both within
~/Library/Preferences) and do not write to~/.bash*files.Thus your
~/.bash_profilewill be run by both iTerm and Terminal and will not be affected by them except if you test on certain variables