Tag: BSD

Mac Terminal tip: Adding a directory to the $PATH environment variable

BlankMike
Posted by: BlankMike Date: March 2, 2011
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The Mac has a unique way of setting up its $PATH variable. These are the locations the BSD portion of OS X looks at to find programs to run. In this case the list of paths can be found in the file /etc/paths. To edit it the administrator needs to sudo their favourite editor since the file itself is owned by root. For example “sudo pico /etc/paths”. This is useful for the programmer who wants to have their programs accessible…