02-23-2012
Configure $PATH in /.bash_profile or /etc/paths?
Hi - I am trying to include the MSQ.exe that I have downloaded for the sake of learning. My current /.bash_profile file reads:
PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin:$PATH
export PATH
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interestingly, another file, /etc/paths reads:
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
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at the prompt, if I$ echo $PATH I get
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
almost a combination of the two minus the /usr/X11/bin.
What must I do to include all of the $PATH variable into either /.bash_profile or /etc/paths? Which one do I put it in? Which ever one it is, that is where I will put the path the the MSQ.exe file.
Lastly, what is telling the OS where to find the $PATH variable in the first place? It seems like there must be some instruction that is causing the OS to look in those two different places.
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Thanks for any and all help on this!
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