Peter Heide » terminal http://peterheide.com I keep meaning to write. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:56:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Adding an environment variable to Bash PATH in OS X http://peterheide.com/2008/10/04/adding-an-environment-variable-to-bash-path-in-os-x/ http://peterheide.com/2008/10/04/adding-an-environment-variable-to-bash-path-in-os-x/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:18:49 +0000 Peter http://peterheide.com/?p=24 Continue reading →]]> 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.

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