How to add /usr/local/bin in $PATH on Mac

macos git node.js path profile
shin picture shin · Jun 14, 2012 · Viewed 151.8k times · Source

When I do 'open .profile' in the terminal I have the following:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin

Now I installed node.js for Mac and it says,

Make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH.

How can I add /usr/local/bin to export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin?

Answer

Mark Reed picture Mark Reed · Jun 14, 2012 
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/bin

One note: you don't need quotation marks here because it's on the right hand side of an assignment, but in general, and especially on Macs with their tradition of spacy pathnames, expansions like $PATH should be double-quoted as "$PATH".

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