Unnecessary texts show up on starting terminal

Question

I did something for installing a particular version of java and adding it to the path by looking at and reading various articles. But for a few days now, whenever I open my Mac terminal, this is what I get, this text. How can I remove it?

This is what I see on my Mac terminal.

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HOME=/Users/abhishekshah
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LOGNAME=abhishekshah
OLDPWD=/Users/abhishekshah
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
PWD=/Users/abhishekshah
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SHLVL=1
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.SwNOWQsVIR/Listeners
TERM=xterm-256color
TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=444
TERM_SESSION_ID=D558C190-743E-4CA7-9E11-6F4D7403B0BD
TMPDIR=/var/folders/5z/8hmt3tz15n1fchdd_c497qh00000gn/T/
USER=abhishekshah
XPC_FLAGS=0x0
XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0
__CFBundleIdentifier=com.apple.Terminal
HOME=/Users/abhishekshah
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LOGNAME=abhishekshah
OLDPWD=/Users/abhishekshah
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
PWD=/Users/abhishekshah
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SHLVL=1
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.SwNOWQsVIR/Listeners
TERM=xterm-256color
TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=444
TERM_SESSION_ID=D558C190-743E-4CA7-9E11-6F4D7403B0BD
TMPDIR=/var/folders/5z/8hmt3tz15n1fchdd_c497qh00000gn/T/
USER=abhishekshah
XPC_FLAGS=0x0
XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0
__CFBundleIdentifier=com.apple.Terminal
abhishekshah@Abhisheks-MacBook-Pro-2 ~ %

Obviously one of your zsh startupfiles is dumping a sorted list of your environment. Start your shell with `-x` turned on to see where this happens. — user1934428, Apr 27 '22 at 08:01
What exactly do you mean by -x turned on? I am new to Mac. Can you please help? — Abhishek Shah, Jun 07 '22 at 04:35
This is not related to the Mac, but to `zsh` in general. If you pass the `-x` option to zsh, or alternatively do a `set -x`, it traces the execution. In your case I would simply start a new login-subshell with `zsh -l -x` and then analyze the output. It is often easier than manually inspecting all the startup files, as Rob Mayoff is suggesting, because it's too easy to overlook something. — user1934428, Jun 07 '22 at 06:32

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 28 '22 at 07:23

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Open your ~/.zshrc or some other zsh startup file and make sure you have no explicit line break on the variables you are exporting. In other words, the variables you are exporting have to be inline.

answered Nov 28 '22 at 07:23

tcscorp

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 25 '22 at 08:49

Faced this issue after I edited .zshrc file to add path. I had added this line:

export PATH = "$PATH:YOUR_PATH"

and then ran command source .zshrc which gave this error .zshrc:2: bad assignment and this error was stuck in shell even after restart since .zshrc is a startup file(runs on shell start).

On searching a lot I found the issue here

The assignments in Bash commands and scripts must not have white space characters around the = operator.

after removing white spaces around = operator the issue was resolved.

Note: Also check that statements should not contain newline characters.

Thanks a lot, in my case there was a new line after = after i remove that line i was able to fix my terminal issue. — Ahmed AlNeaimy, Feb 28 '23 at 19:47

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 19 '23 at 00:53

Had the exact same problem and just solved it. In the terminal run zsh -x and scroll down to see exactly what file is causing the unnecessary export to the terminal. For me, this was in my output:

+add-zsh-hook:92> autoload -- shell_session_update
+/Users/chie/.zshrc:1> export
DISPLAY=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.ADcsvecDjX/org.xquartz:0
HOME=/Users/chie
LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
...

...which meant that the issue was in the file ~/.zshrc which I had mistakenly edited (I had accidentally put a line break between export and PATH)

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 26 '22 at 22:43

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Probably the installer added an env or printenv command to your ~/.zshrc or some other zsh startup file. Check section “STARTUP/SHUTDOWN FILES” in the zsh man page for the complete list of files you might need to inspect.

answered Apr 26 '22 at 22:43

rob mayoff

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I am new to MacOS. Can you please explain in detail, exactly how and what I should do for removing those? – Abhishek Shah Apr 26 '22 at 22:47
Hey, can you please tell, how to get rid of it? – Abhishek Shah Jun 07 '22 at 04:44

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 31 '23 at 11:01

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Remove break between export and path This worked for me

answered Jul 31 '23 at 11:01

Afnan

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score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 24 '22 at 23:41

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Open Terminal and enter

rm .zshenv

It will fix your issue but it may cause other issues. Copy the contents of your .zshenv file before executing the remove command

answered Sep 24 '22 at 23:41

Jon

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