Mac OS X Tip: Setting PATH environment variables
I’m still getting to grips with this OS X malarkey, and my latest challenge was how to set the PATH environment variables.
I started out wanting to add some aliases for the mysql and mysqladmin commands as I’ve just decided to have a bit of a play with django. On linux I used to edit my .bashrc file to do this, but the version of bash on Mac OS X (10.5.2) doesn’t seem to support this. Hunting around I realised that I should just add the path to these commands to my PATH environment variable, but again: not quite so simple.
I want these commands to be available to everyone, so it turns out you have to edit a file called paths in /etc:
sudo vi /etc/paths
And that was it. Easy when you know how! Oh, and remember to run vi as root using the sudo command….
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