Restart terminal without closing on MacOS
Just type in the command:
exec bash -l
I guess that should do it.
For zsh
,
exec zsh -l
This is needed because every shell on macOS
by default is a login shell.
Justing writing exec bash
would replace the current shell with a non-login shell which is not the same effect as closing and re-opening the terminal.
exec
would make new bash -l
process replace the current shell. If exec
is not used, bash -l
would spawn a new shell over the current shell incrementing the $SHLVL
.
For me none of the other solutions work for ZSH.
Simply source ~/.zshrc
did the job actually.
Note: running exec zsh -l
outputs /Users/my_username/.zprofile:3: command not found: yarn
(where my_username
is my username). But running only the command mentioned above does the job.
The actual answer, assuming you interpret the question as having the same effect at the state of the terminal session as closing and reopening Terminal would, appears to be to run the executable of the used shell to start a new session:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/217907/137983
zsh
If you're not on Catalina where ZSH is the default shell, it's going to be:
bash
After this, all state of the previous session (like session environment variables) will be reset. Also ZSH profile should be re-sourced I think.