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Add to the PATH on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
October 02, 2012
I just bought a neat Mac Mini! Im using it to do some MonoTouch and Mono for An-
droid development! In the process of setting everything up, I installed node.js. After the
node.js installer finished, it recommended to add /usr/local/share/npm/bin to my
path. It turns out there is a very neat way to do this in OS X, the /etc/paths file! The file
contains a list (one per line) of paths that are added to the $PATH variable in the shell.
Here are some quick directions to add to the path:
Open up Terminal.
Run the following command:
Enter your password, when prompted.
Go to the bottom of the file, and enter the path you wish to add.
Hit control-x to quit.
Enter Y to save the modified buffer.
Thats it! To test it, in new terminal window, type:
You should see something similar to this (including the path youve added!):
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MacMini:~ ryan$ echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/share/npm/bin
Here is a screenshot of what my file looks like:
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