Trying to add adb to PATH variable OSX

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I am trying to develop for android and I want to add the adb to my PATH so that I can launch it really easily  I have added directories before by for some reason adb does not want to be found  This is very frustrating  Has anyone else had this problem before   I created a file  profile and added the following to it   export PATH     PATH   Users simon Libs android-sdk-mac x86 platform-tools  export PATH     PATH   Users simon Libs android-sdk-mac x86 tools   When I check my environment path I see the following    usr bin  bin  usr sbin  sbin  usr local bin  usr X11 bin  Libs android-sdk-mac x86 tools  Libs android-sdk-mac x86 platform-tools   So I know that it is added to my PATH variable  Now when I try to run adb I get that it is not found    -bash    adb  No such file or directory   This is very very frustrating  Could it be a problem with permissions  Has anyone had this problem with OSX and Android

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I use zsh and Android Studio  I use a variable for my Android SDK path and configure in the file    zshrc   export ANDROID HOME  Applications Android  Studio app sdk export PATH   ANDROID HOME platform-tools  ANDROID HOME tools  PATH    Note  Make sure not to include single or double quotes around the specified path  If you do  it won t work

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On my Macbook Pro  I ve added the export lines to    bash profile  not  profile   e g    export PATH  Users me android-sdk-mac 86 platform-tools  Users me android-sdk-mac 86 tools  PATH

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In your terminal  navigate to home directory  cd create file  bash profile  touch  bash profile open file with TextEdit  open -e  bash profile insert line into TextEdit  export PATH  PATH  Users username Library Android sdk platform-tools  save file and reload file   source    bash profile is very important check if adb was set into path  adb version   It should be fine now

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The answer for MAC should be    Open your bash profile with the following commands  open    bash profile In case base profile file doesn t exist  create a new one with the following command  touch  bash profile then repeat phase 1  Add the following line  export PATH  Users  YOURUSER  Library Android sdk platform-tools  PATH Restart your bash window and test by typing adb shell   Good luck   -

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2nd solution is explained below  But when i close the terminal the change which i made in path variable gets lost  Thus i prefer the first way

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In order to make the terminal always have the file    bashrc and there put the path you wish to use  by adding   export PATH  PATH  XXX   where XXX is the path that you wish to use   for adb  here s what i use   export PATH  PATH  home user Android android-sdk-linux x86 platform-tools     where  user  is my user name

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It appears that you re still trying to execute adb with   adb  That asks the shell to run the program named adb in the current working directory   Try just adb without

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I added export PATH   PATH   Users mishrapranjal android-sdks platform-tools  into both places  bash profile and  profile to make sure it works  Still it wasn t working and then I looked at sarnold s tip about restarting terminal and it worked like a charm  It saved my time of adding every time this into the PATH whenever I had to run adb  Thank you guys

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If anyone can t seem to get there  bash profile file to take any new Paths AND you have other commands in that file  like alias commands  then try moving the PATH statements to the top of the file    That is the only thing that worked for me  The reason it worked was because I had some typos in my alias commands and apparently this file throws an error and exits if it runs into a problem  So that is why my PATH statements weren t being run  Moving it to the top just let it run first

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Add to PATH for every login  Total control version   in your terminal  navigate to home directory     cd   create file  bash profile     touch  bash profile   open file with TextEdit     open -e  bash profile   insert line into TextEdit     export   PATH  PATH  Users username Library Android sdk platform-tools    save file and reload file     source    bash profile   check if adb was set into path     adb version     One liner version  Echo your export command and redirect the output to be appended to  bash profile file and restart terminal   have not verified this but should work      echo  export PATH  PATH  Users username Library Android sdk platform-tools    sdk platform-tools         bash profile

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Alternative  Install adb the easy way  If you don t want to have to worry about your path or updating adb manually  you can use homebrew instead   brew cask install android-platform-tools

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Just encase anyone finds this SO post when using Android Studio which includes the SDK has part of the App package  on Mac OSX     So as  davecaunt and  user1281750 noted but insert the following line to   bash profile   export PATH  Applications Android  Studio app sdk tools  Applications Android  Studio app sdk platform-tools  PATH

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Android Studio v1 2 installs the adb tool in this path     Library Android sdk platform-tools adb   So it goes like this    Run Terminal run adb version and expect an error output touch    bash profile open    bash profile add the above path before the  closing    PATH source    bash profile run adb version and expect an output   Good luck

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Why are you trying to run    adb   That skips the path variable entirely and only looks for  adb  in the current directory  Try running  adb  instead   Edit  your path looks wrong  You say you get   usr bin  bin  usr sbin  sbin  usr local bin  usr X11 bin  Libs android-sdk-mac x86 tools  Libs android-sdk-mac x86 platform-tools   You re missing the  Users simon part   Also note that if you have both  profile and  bash profile files  only the latter gets executed

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