10.4: Avoid a Process Completed error in Terminal

Jul 08, '05 10:21:00AM

Contributed by: avanham

Tiger only hintSince I upgraded to Tiger, I have had a problem with Terminal displaying [Process completed] every other time I open a new Terminal window. And to say it is annoying is being polite. It turns out the problem is mostly due to my choice of default shell -- zsh -- although I understand it can also happen with tcsh and bash, albeit less often.

I found a workaround in this thread on the Apple Discussions site:

Simply exit the shell before you close the Terminal window (by typing exit or hitting Control-D) and you will not have this problem.

[robg adds: Talk about a flashback; on the second day of the site's existence back in 2000, this hint covered the exact same problem, albeit with a much different resolution (back then, it was a bad tcsh file, and reinstalling seemed to be the required fix!). This seems much simpler, though still annoying...]

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