Stuck in infinite loop in Mac terminal after source ~/.bashrc

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Howdy, dipping back into Discourse development after a long divergence into learning Ember.js. As I’ve hacked away over the past few days trying to remember how I did all this back in August/September I’ve opened terminal to find a script running on what looked like an infinite loop.

Finally decided to go back to the Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on macOS for Development yesterday. Kept running into a brick wall so restored a back-up of my droplet and decided to start again in the morning.

Just opened terminal and had to ctrl+c again to stop the loop. Tried to ssh root and it threw another Permission denied so I decided to get Discourse going local again. I proceeded with…

  1. git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse.git ~/discourse
  2. cd ~/discourse
  3. source ~/.bashrc

Step 3 kicked off the infinite loop I’ve seen the past few days. This is what it looks like.

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Does anyone have a solution? I’d love to avoid deleting everything and starting over.

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You’ll need to look in .bashrc and see what it’s doing.

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Have all hidden files visible and it doesn’t seem to exist… which is puzzling.

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If you can’t find .bashrc . . . wait. You don’t need to source .bashrc since it gets run when you log in.

I recommend that you punt on that and use Beginners Guide to Install Discourse for Development using Docker.

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Perfect. Thank you, sir!