Setting PATH environment variable in OSX permanently

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I have read several answers on how to set environmental variables on OSX as permanently    First  I tried this  How to permanently set  PATH on Linux Unix  but I had an error message saying no such file and directory  so I thought I could try      bash profile instead of    profile but it did not work   Second  I found this solution How to set the  PATH as used by applications in os x   which advices to make changes in         MacOSX environment plist   but again I had no such file and directory error    I need a way to set these variables such that it won t require to set them again and again each time I open a new terminal session

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You can open any of the following files    etc profile    bash profile    bash login    if  bash profile does not exist     profile       if  bash login does not exist    And add   export PATH   PATH your new path here

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If you are using zsh do the following   Open  zshrc file nano  HOME  zshrc  You will see the commented  PATH variable here   If you come from bash you might have to change your  PATH    export PATH  HOME bin  usr local      Remove the comment symbol    and append your new path using a separator    like this     export PATH  HOME bin  usr local bin  Users ebin Documents Softwares mongoDB bin  PATH   Activate the change source  HOME  zshrc  You re done

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For a new path to be added to PATH environment variable in MacOS just create a new file under  etc paths d directory and add write path to be set in the file  Restart the terminal  You can check with echo  PATH at the prompt to confirm if the path was added to the environment variable   For example  to add a new path  usr local sbin to the PATH variable   cd  etc paths d sudo vi newfile   Add the path to the newfile and save it   Restart the terminal and type echo  PATH to confirm

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You have to add it to  etc paths   Reference  which works for me    Here

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I ve found that there are some files that may affect the  PATH variable in macOS  works for me  10 11 El Capitan   listed below     As the top voted answer said  vi  etc paths  which is recommended from my point of view   Also don t forget the  etc paths d directory  which contains files may affect the  PATH variable  set the git and mono-command path in my case  You can ls -l  etc paths d to list items and rm  etc paths d path you dislike to remove items    If you re using a  bash  environment  the default Terminal app  for example   you should check out    bash profile or    bashrc  There may be not that file yet  but these two files have effects on the  PATH   If you re using a  zsh  environment  Oh-My-Zsh  for example   you should check out    zshrc instead of    bash  thing     And don t forget to restart all the terminal windows  then echo  PATH  The  PATH string will be PATH SET IN 3 amp 4 PATH SET IN 1 PATH SET IN 2    Noticed that the first two ways   etc paths and  etc path d  is in   directory which will affect all the accounts in your computer while the last two ways     bash  or    zsh   is in    directory  aka   Users yourusername   which will only affect your account settings    Read more  Mac OS X  Set   Change  PATH Variable - nixCraft

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For setting up path in Mac two methods can be followed    Creating a file for variable name and paste the path there under  etc paths d and source the file to profile bashrc  Export path variable in    profile bashrc as  export VARIABLE NAME     PATH VALUE    AND  source the the path  Its simple and stable   You can set any path variable by Mac terminal or in linux also

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You could also add this  if   -f    bashrc    then          bashrc fi   to    bash profile  then create    bashrc where you can just add more paths to PATH  An example with    export PATH  PATH

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