Richard Shawn Faust CourtJesterG

## path-in-mac-osx-10.7.mdown

      
        
          
            
              
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                CourtJesterG
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              February 3, 2014 05:30
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    $PATH in MacOSX 10.7

MacOSX has a truly global path setting that precedes any other setting like ~/.bash_profile.
The file /private/etc/paths is a list of pathnames. The order from top to bottom defines the resulting order in the $PATH variable.
After loading /private/etc/paths there is a directory /private/etc/paths.d/ with files in the same style. Those are appended to the $PATH variable.
The default content of /private/etc/paths looks like this:
/usr/bin
/bin