Specifying shell commands to run when opening new Terminal windows from macOS’s Terminal settings

As a follow-up to a previous post, as part of that post I had been running certain shell commands by adding them to a .zshrc file:

• export PS1=”\$ “: Sets the prompt to only display “$” (no quotes) using the PS1 environmental variable.
• unset zle_bracketed_paste: Disable the zsh shell’s bracketed paste feature.

With some additional research, I learned that I could also run these commands using the Run command function which is available in your Terminal settings under the Shell tab.

To replicate what I wanted, I had to enable the Run command option in the Shell tab, then also set Run inside shell. Once those were enabled, I added the following shell commands:

export PS1="\$ " && unset zle_bracketed_paste && clear

• export PS1=”\$ “: Sets the prompt to only display “$” (no quotes) using the PS1 environmental variable.
• unset zle_bracketed_paste: Disable the zsh shell’s bracketed paste feature.
• clear: Removes all contents (including running the commands listed above) from the Terminal window.

The reason why this is nice is that I can now add running these commands to a macOS configuration profile using the CommandString key:

To see this used in context in a macOS configuration profile, please see below the jump.

The following profile sets the following settings:

• Font: Monaco 18 point size

Additional settings:

• Terminal prompt should not show the hostname or the logged-in user.
• Zsh’s bracketed paste feature is disabled