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© 1995-2003 AppleHow to add a folder permanently to the PATH variable of your Mac OS X environment:
echo 'export PATH=/your/path/:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
Notes:
/your/path/for instance could be/usr/local/bin/- the config file for the standard terminal in OS X is not
.bashrc - sometimes
.bashrccontains instructions although not used, you may want to keep these by usingmv ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile - make sure you use the apostrophe and not quotation marks, because
"$PATH"would replace$PATHwith the actual content of the path variable - the
>>is used to append the output of the preceding command to the file, thus preserving the contents of the file - to check what your current bash profile looks like, use
cat ~/.bash_profile
Update: I forgot to mention, but you can similarly export any environment variable permanently, for instance:
echo 'export SVN_EDITOR=VIM' >> ~/.bash_profile
