This is another one of those blog entries where I want to blog for the sake of remembering tedious details…
The issue that I was facing was how to add a directory to the PATH environment variable on my Mac.
I wanted to add a path to MySQL install. So I’ll use that example. The following command in a Terminal window created my .bash_profile file. If the file already exists, it would have added to that file.
echo ‘export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH’ >> ~/.bash_profile
The PATH information is stored in /Users/username/.bash_profile file.
thanks, worked for me except I used .profile, OS X Leopard.
Finally found THE line that worked… The commands posted on the MySQL website works just that particular time but if you close Terminal and go back again doesn’t work. Thanks a lot
I put this line in .profile file and it worked:
export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH
I use Mac OS X 10.5.8.
Thank you.