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I have a MacBook which was recently bought and macOS Sierra 10.12.5

Sometimes the weird files named '!' and 'export' are being created in some random directories, for example in my home directory or in others. The files are 0kb both and have such permissions and owner:

-rw-r--r-- alx(my user) staff

What application creates such files and why? I'm tired of deleting these files from everywhere.

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  • Take a look at the opensnoop command to see if you can catch the process next time it creates files like that. It'll probably be a command like sudo opensnoop 2>/dev/null | grep 'result$'
    – 0942v8653
    Commented Jun 9, 2017 at 17:55
  • I've found that this files are being created immediately when I launch Terminal from the folder's path. And the opensnoop command shows many node.js processes touching hundreds of files, but 'export' and '!' are not among them.
    – Alexander Khramov
    Commented Jun 10, 2017 at 21:48
  • Then you need to look in what are the shell startup files as these are the ones executed on terminal start
    – mmmmmm
    Commented Jun 11, 2017 at 0:18
  • @Mark thanks a lot, this advice was helpful and I've found what's going on.
    – Alexander Khramov
    Commented Jun 12, 2017 at 21:18

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I've checked the .bash_profile file and found this lines:

> export GOPATH=$HOME/go
> export PATH=$GOPATH:$GOPATH/bin:$PATH
> !

It looks like I made a mistake when I ran console command during GO installation. I've removed this '>' symbols and now everything is ok.

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