I get 'Command Not Found' when I try to run Android Emulator on Mac OS X

android macos shell emulation

Kebman · Apr 22, 2012 · Viewed 40.1k times · Source

When I use the Mac OS X Terminal to navigate to the folder with my Android Emulator and type emulator, I get:

command not found

Here's what happens:

$ emulator
-bash: emulator: command not found

How do I get it to work?

Answer

The current directory is not normally included in your $PATH on a *nix operating system like OS X; to execute a program in the current directory, precede it with the path to the current directory (.):

$ ./emulator