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Margriet
Margriet

Reputation: 197

The system does not store the path which I have set in .bash_profile

I have placed this line in my .bash_profile. 

export PATH="$PATH:/Users/margrietpronk/Developer/flutter/bin"
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".bash_profile" 1L, 63C

Every time I restart my Mac, the path is not there. When I add this path manually, by the same command, then the path is known.

without adding it manually, when I put in echo $path, it shows:

Margrietje@iMac-van-MG ~ % echo $path
/usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin

when I add the command manually, it says:

Margrietje@iMac-van-MG ~ % echo $path                                                    
/usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /Users/margrietpronk/Developer/flutter/bin

Then the path is working. How can I fix this? I thought it has to do with the name "Margrietje" before the @ ???

Upvotes: 0

Views: 166

Answers (2)

Margriet
Margriet

Reputation: 197

I have switched back to the zsh shell, as advised by @chepner First I had to make the file .zshrc, because it wasn't there. I have edit it explained here: https://superuser.com/questions/886132/where-is-the-zshrc-file-on-mac

I have put in the path for flutter: export PATH="$PATH:/Users/margrietpronk/Developer/flutter/bin"

Then I switched in the terminal to the zsh shell: chsh -s /bin/zsh

The path is working now. Hope this is helping somebody with the same problem as I had.

Upvotes: 0

user1934428
user1934428

Reputation: 22225

You tagged your question bash, but the fact that echo $path outputs the PATH as array, indicates that you are not using bash. My guess is that you are running Zsh, because in Zsh, PATH and path are kept in sync. You can verify this by doing a

echo $BASH_VERSION

and 

echo $ZSH_VERSION

Of course if you do run Zsh, changing .bash_profile has no effect, and the changes should go into .zshrc.

Upvotes: 3

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