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Chadimoglou
Chadimoglou

Reputation: 147

echo $PATH doesn't match .bash_profile

I'm attempting to install homebrew on Mountain Lion so that I can install Ruby 1.9.3. After years of programming only PHP, 'm finally taking the jump into Rails, Git, etc. In anycase, I'm on a laptop that was given to me. Therefore, my login account is not the original account. I think that might be causing the problem I'm having.

When running brew doctor I get the following:

Warning: Homebrew's sbin was not found in your path. Consider amending your PATH variable so it contains: /usr/local/sbin

When running echo $PATH I get the following:

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/Users/chadimoglou/.rvm/bin

There is no .profile in my home directory. There is a .bash_profile. It looks like this

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session as a function

Any help for this terminal noob is much appreciated.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 7637

Answers (2)

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 1

You can manually edit your $PATH and /bin. This guide was not too terrible it helped me understand the entire concept of $PATH /bin and being a sudoer.

Upvotes: 0

wless1
wless1

Reputation: 3549

in your .bash_profile, you can simply do:

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/sbin"

Upvotes: 8

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