This is another one of those blog entries where I want to blog for the sake of remembering tedious details...

The issue that I was facing was how to add a directory to the PATH environment variable on my Mac.

I wanted to add a path to MySQL install. So I'll use that example. The following command in a Terminal window created my .bash_profile file. If the file already exists, it would have added to that file.

echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile

The PATH information is stored in /Users/username/.bash_profile file.

Comments

Bill wrote on 01/01/08 3:48 PM

thanks, worked for me except I used .profile, OS X Leopard.

Andrea wrote on 09/13/08 8:13 AM

Finally found THE line that worked... The commands posted on the MySQL website works just that particular time but if you close Terminal and go back again doesn't work. Thanks a lot

Prodis wrote on 09/20/09 3:34 PM

I put this line in .profile file and it worked:
export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH

I use Mac OS X 10.5.8.

Thank you.

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