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cshrc not getting sourced after installing miniconda

Hope this is an easy one for somebody:

  • After installing miniconda on mac, my ~/.cshrc file no longer gets sourced when running a new shell.
  • The system-wide cshrc is getting sourced from /etc/csh.cshrc, but not the one in my home directory.
  • If I manually run source ~/.cshrc, then everything looks fine.
  • My shell is still set to /bin/csh as expected.
  • I am pretty sure it is related to the miniconda install.
Solution

  • I finally found the problem here:

    When miniconda installs, it created a new .tcshrc file, which did not previously exist.

    csh must prefer sourcing from .tcshrc, and ignores .cshrc if it is found.

    I just had to delete the .tcshrc file that miniconda created and everything works again.