rbenv: no such command `init-'

Question

I'm trying to install ruby in terminal via homebrew.

So far I've entered:

brew install rbenv

and then I rain

rbenv init

after the command was run I received

# Load rbenv automatically by appending
# the following to ~/.bash_profile:

eval "$(rbenv init -)"

finally I entered:

echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile

I restarted my terminal per instructions and then received

rbenv: no such command `init-'

at the top of my new terminal.

error messages: rbenv: no such command `init-'

expected messages: nothing, blank terminal

Please include the relevant line from your `~/.bash_profile` in the question. — Jörg W Mittag, Oct 10 '19 at 02:18

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '19 at 06:37

The default shell (Bash before macOS 10.15) on macOS is a login shell. Only .bash_profile is used in initialization by default.

You need to put eval "$(rbenv init -)" into ~/.bash_profile but not ~/.bashrc.

login mode:
- /etc/profile
- ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, ~/.profile (only first one that exists)
interactive non-login:
- /etc/bash.bashrc (some Linux; not on Mac OS X)
- ~/.bashrc
non-interactive:
- source file in $BASH_ENV

Check the path of the red line for an interactive, login shell on macOS.

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