$ PATH来自我的mac

Question

So I've been trying to install laravel for quite sometime now on my mac

I run :- export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin" and everything works for that current terminal session. But if I close and open terminal again, it doesn't work.

I've tried adding path to :-

• ~/bashrc
• ~/bash_rc
• ~/bash_profile
• /Users/myusername/bash_profile

but it still doesn't work.

If I run echo $PATH , the out put is "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"

Where is this coming from ? I don't see this anywhere in any files.

Answer 1

I believe ~/.profile is the file you should use.

You can put your export your export command in the file, and then it will work after next login. And if you want to make it work right now, just run source ~/.profile.

More details, please refer to http://hayne.net/MacDev/Notes/unixFAQ.html#shellStartup