Why does my zsh have these texts on startup?

Question

I was installing RoR the other day and when I opened my iterm2, this was on startup :

This is on my .bash_profile

# Setting PATH for Python 3.7
# The original version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:${PATH}"

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenv
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/Devel
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenv
alias python='/usr/local/bin/python3'
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"'
alias q='exit'

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"'
# Add RVM to PATH for scripting. Make sure this is the last PATH variable change.
export GEM_HOME=~/.ruby

# Add RVM to PATH for scripting. Make sure this is the last PATH variable change.
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin"


export PATH=/Users/highcenoid/gems/bin:/usr/local/opt/sqlite/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function*

On my .zshrc :

export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export ZSH="/Users/user/.oh-my-zsh"
ZSH_THEME="powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k"
DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"
ENABLE_CORRECTION="true"
plugins=(git django npm node pip python yarn brew virtualenv)
POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(status virtualenv)
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
export MANPATH="/usr/local/man:$MANPATH"
[[ -f /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/tabtab/.completions/serverless.zsh ]] && . /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/tabtab/.completions/serverless.zsh
[[ -f /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/tabtab/.completions/sls.zsh ]] && . /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/tabtab/.completions/sls.zsh
[[ -f /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/tabtab/.completions/slss.zsh ]] && . /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/tabtab/.completions/slss.zsh
export DEFAULT_USER="$(whoami)"
export PATH="/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin"

This is my virtualenv

#!/usr/bin/python
# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 
'virtualenv==16.4.3','console_scripts','virtualenv'
__requires__ = 'virtualenv==16.4.3'
import sys
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(
        load_entry_point('virtualenv==16.4.3', 'console_scripts', 
'virtualenv')()
    )

What else do I need to show?

Answer 1

What is happening?

Your .zshrc looks OK, but problem is with in your .bash_profile . Shell config files are just shell scripts executed when shell starts. And in this line of .bash_profile

source /usr/local/bin/virtualenv

content of virtualenv file is included into shell script ( source is like include or import in other languages). And including any other language source into shell script will always cause errors.

Why?

I don't know how virtualenv should be installed and initiated, but this is obviously wrong. My first guesss would be that virtualenv should be a shell script, but something overwrote it with python content. Or - virtualenv s content is OK, but it should not be initiated by sourcing it into .bash_profile , but executed there.

OK, but how do I fix it?

There is not much to do, if my first guess is right. Maybe reinstalling virtualenv related stuff could help.

But in the second case - change the source line mentioned above to

/usr/local/bin/virtualenv

save the file, and that should do the trick. This tells not to include virtualenv but to execute it.

PS. export PATH=...

Last two lines

export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"
export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"

show up, because again your .bash_profile says so. There are two lines: 9 and 12

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"'

echo is like print in other languages. So this tells shell to print some static strings. If you don't like that, you can remove those lines or put # in front of them, to comment them out.