Comments on: OS X: Change your PATH environment variable

By: charmedguy18

charmedguy18 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:55:11 +0000

For some reason this is what my path is:
##
# DELUXE-USR-LOCAL-BIN-INSERT
# (do not remove this comment)
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echo $PATH | grep -q -s "/usr/local/bin"
if [PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
fi
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad
# Setting PATH for Python 3.1
# The orginal version is saved in .profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH
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This is even though I have Fink installed. I'm sorry to post this so randomly here but I don't know where else to put it.
When I use Fink, it works.... So I don't really know why my profile has this in it. this is in ~/.profile just so you're sure.

If you want to see what echo $PATH does this is it:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

So it's not as if I have a problem as of right now. But for some reason, as far as I can see I don't know where to edit my path. I'm sure I'll want to eventually.
Thanks.

By: Amgine

Amgine — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:54:26 +0000

In my case, I need to add a directory to the path for both myself and for www-data. Is there a variation for adding the dir in /etc/profile?

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:53:59 +0000

Thanks mate,
Just what I was looking for. It seemed to be a different way of doing things in Leopard than previous versions.
Cheers,
Mitch

By: Juan Pablo Contreras

Juan Pablo Contreras — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:51:21 +0000

Hi…. I've made the changes on .profile but they only remain until I close the terminal although I run “. .profile”

What am I doing wrong?

By: marcel

marcel — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:21:21 +0000

normal i would add an exra PATH in /etc/profile

By: tombeek

tombeek — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:24:40 +0000

david: it's ok to have the same elements of a path variable in your path more than once; in some cases it is necessary. As far as how to give one path priority over another, just make the one you want to load come first (reading left to right) in your PATH variable.

By: david

david — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:44:00 +0000

I have a question: When I "echo $PATH" or type "env" which shows the same path I assume, I'm given a path that has a bunch of variables, namely /usr/bin/:/usr/bin/sbin, etc etc that I can't seem to find in my path files. Not in ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, or anywhere else I've looked...where do those variables reside. I really just want to switch the order of /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin so my /usr/local/bin python2.6 install default starts instead of the version 2.5 that ships with Mac.

Hope that's not too confusing, I don't think it is.

Thanks for the otherwise helpful information...after adding a ~/.profile I noticed that the PATH in there precedes the other PATH attributes mentioned above so temporarily I've tacked /usr/local/bin on there and it works how I want...but now I have /usr/local/bin on the PATH twice and would like to remedy that.

Cheers