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I noticed the default location for nushell's configuration files on Mac OS is ~/Library/Application Support/nushell/, is it possible to change it to another location?

Jian
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Issuing nu --help gives the option

--config <String> - start with an alternate config file

So, starting it with nu --config another/location/config.nu should do it.

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I think it's better to set the NU_CONFIG_DIR environment variable to the desired directory path,so if you are using bash open nano ~/.bash_profile or if you are using zsh open nano ~/.zprofile and put this line into it :

export NU_CONFIG_DIR=/path/to/custom/location

now save and exit then apply the changes to your current shell session like below if you are under bash :

source ~/.bash_profile

and if you are under zsh

source ~/.zprofile

that's it,nushell will use the specified directory (/path/to/custom/location) as the location for its configuration files, such as config.toml and history.txt!

Freeman
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Only symbolic link worked for me on macos m1:

mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/nushell ~/.config/
ln -s ~/.config/nushell ~/Library/Application\ Support/
rofrol
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Nushell now supports using the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable to specify the location for config files. The variable must be set before Nushell is launched.

I'm not a macOS user, so I hope my process and terminology are correct here. I believe there are several ways to set these variables:

  1. From this Stack Overflow answer, use launchctl setenv XDG_CONFIG_HOME <path>.

  2. If that doesn't, work, a user on the Nushell Discord server reported that they needed to create a LaunchAgent in their user-level ~/Library/LaunchAgents like:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" 
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>me.oscarvarto.environment</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/bin/sh</string>
        <string>-c</string>
        <string>
            launchctl setenv XDG_CONFIG_HOME /Users/oscarvarto/.config &&
            launchctl setenv XDG_CACHE_HOME /Users/oscarvarto/.cache &&
            launchctl setenv XDG_DATA_HOME /Users/oscarvarto/.local/share &&
            launchctl setenv XDG_STATE_HOME /Users/oscarvarto/.local/state &&
            launchctl setenv XDG_RUNTIME_DIR /Users/oscarvarto/.local/run &&
            launchctl setenv XDG_BIN_HOME /Users/oscarvarto/.local/bin
        </string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>ServiceIPC</key>
    <false/>
</dict>
</plist>
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