In order to do this, please follow this tutorial. The reason why this is happening is because you are not pointing your “$PATH” to a folder with ONLY Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64. 🥺 Was this helpful? Please add a comment to show your appreciation or feedback ↓ Join the nixCraft community via RSS Feed, Email Newsletter or follow on Twitter. He wrote more than 7k+ posts and helped numerous readers to master IT topics. Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source.

Customize the bash shell environments from the Linux shell scripting wiki.

See the following manual pages using the help command or man command on your macOS / OS X machine: This method only works on OS X Leopard and higher macOS version.

Use the /etc/paths.d/ directory or folder via the path_helper command tool to generate the PATH variable for all user accounts on the system.

bash_profile file when you need to generate the PATH variable for a single user account. Alternatively, you can close and reopen the Terminal app to see new $PATH changes. OR use vi text editor as follows to create /etc/paths.d/zmodemapp file:Īnd append the following text: /usr/local/sbin/modemZapp Sudo -s 'echo '/usr/local/sbin/modemZapp' > /etc/paths.d/zmodemapp' To set /usr/local/sbin/modemZapp to $PATH, enter:

You can use the cat command to see path settings in 40-XQuartz: Prior to reading these directories, default PATH and MANPATH values are obtained from the files /etc/paths and /etc/manpaths respectively. (The MANPATH environment variable will not be modified unless it is already set in the environment.)įiles in these directories should contain one path element per line. The path_helper utility reads the contents of the files in the directories /etc/paths.d and /etc/manpaths.d and appends their contents to the PATH and MANPATH environment variables respectively. helper for constructing PATH environment variable. Sample outputs: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/sbin/modemZappĪpple recommends the path_helper tool to generate the PATH variable i.e. Finally, verify your new path settings, enter:.Then, to apply changes immediately enter the following source command: Save and close the file when using vim/vi as a text editor.Export PATH= $PATH: /usr /local /sbin /modemZapp

Editor for bin file for mac