How to export everything useful in my iTerm to another system

Question

I am currently using iTerm2 3.4.4 on my macbook pro. I am getting a different macbook and would be installing iterm on that one as well.

I want to export as much as possible from the older machine and import it into the new one. Some things I can think of it profile settings, command history, etc. How can I export these things and import them in the new machine ?

Is there an iTerm folder I can just copy and paste ?

Aguilar

Answer 1

You can export your profile by going to:

Settings - Profiles > "Other Actions" > "Save Profile as JSON".

You could copy the whole /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/iTerm2 folder to your new machine, which probably works as well.

The command history depends on the shell that you're using, it has nothing to do with iTerm.

Bash History:

~/.bash_history

Zsh History:

~/.zsh_history

Fish History:

~/.local/share/fish/fish_history

The shell configurations depend on your shell as well.

Bierman

Answer 2

The current stable version of iTerm2 (3.4.19) looks like it stores preferences settings in

• ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist
• ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.private.plist

by default, unless you use the option in Preferences ▹ General ▹ Preferences to save it to a custom location:

State information is stored separately in ~/Library/Application Support/iTerm2/ as noted in @techrisdev's answer of 2021-04-20.

Agrippina