I can never remember how to add environment variables to .bash_profile. This post just reminds me how to do that.
It’s dead simple. Just open up Terminal and enter the following (changing the path ‘/opt/subversion/bin’, naturally):
echo 'export PATH=/opt/subversion/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
If .bash_profile doesn’t exist yet (and it doesn’t by default), it’ll be created. Otherwise, the environment variable will be added to that file.
Credit to Indy Nagpal.
Hi Peter,
I have added it to the first line in my ~/.profile file this way:
PATH=/opt/subversion/bin:$PATH
and it works just the same. I wonder if the shell looks for them both once you open Terminal.
Fabiano
If I’m not mistaken, the following startup files will be searched for in order. Whichever one is found first will be used by the shell:
~/.bash_profile
~/.bash_login
~/.profile
So yeah, .profile should work, as long as you don’t also have a .bash_profile.