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Something odd has just started happening. On opening a new terminal, the first line of the terminal now says:
install: target 'xmas' is not a directory.
I've no idea what is causing that to happen, or how to track it down.

I'm on Ubuntu 11.10. My terminal is ZSH, with Oh My ZSH. Here is my .zshrc file and my oh-my-zsh.sh file (it is unchanged from the original).

What should I investigate next?

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I could not find the call to install in either script. Maybe a system wide script /etc/profile or so has it in there. You can run grep -R install /etc/ | grep xmas. That should give you a hing. – queueoverflow Dec 13 '11 at 15:42
sudo grep -R install /etc/ | grep xmas returned nothing – Premasagar Dec 13 '11 at 15:46
Okay, that says that there is no line which has both "install" and "xmas" in any of the files. This is strange. You could do the same for your home directory, just to be sure it is not there. grep -R install ~ | grep xmas. – queueoverflow Dec 13 '11 at 15:52
Can you comment out the source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh line to see if it a problem with the oh-my-zsh plugins. – bodhi.zazen Dec 13 '11 at 16:16
There was nothing from grep -R install ~ | grep xmas but yes, commenting out source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh works! In fact, if I just remove npm from the plugin list, then that resolves it. Something to do with this, perhaps: github.com/isaacs/npm/blob/master/lib/npm.js#L165 - thanks queueoverflow and bodhu.zazen – Premasagar Dec 14 '11 at 12:08
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It was the npm plugin for Oh My Zsh that was triggering this. (See comments below my original question).

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