macOS Catalina 10.15(beta) - Why is `.~bash_profile` not sourced by my shell?

Question

I want to set the environment variable I added below the line to ~/.bash_profile and ~/.profile but it didn't work.

export JBOSS_HOME=/Users/{USERNAME}/Desktop/jboss7

Afterward, exit the terminal and open it again when executing echo $JBOSS_HOME I get nothing.

Answer 1

Apple has changed the default shell to zsh. Therefore you have to rename your configuration files. .bashrc is now .zshrc and .bash_profile is now .zprofile.

Answer 2

I created a new file called

/usr/local/bin/mybash

which contains a wrapper script:

/usr/local/bin/bash --init-file $HOME/.bashrc

I installed this local/bin/bash from HomeBrew.

Full Sequence of Events

brew install bash
echo "/usr/local/bin/bash --init-file $HOME/.bashrc" > /usr/local/bin/mybash
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/mybash

Then I opened the settings for terminal.app [cmd-comma]. Under the General Tab, select the radio button for Command (complete path)

In the text box change the text from /bin/zsh/ to /usr/local/bin/bash.