Thank you so verry much!

Hi,
Thanks for your comment, this is first time when any thing from some one's blog run in first shot. Much appreciated.
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Sumit

I'm pretty new to the world of the Mac. Following your instructions I've gone into Spotlight, found Terminal, clicked on it. A black command window opens up, when I type in the touch command it fails.

Last login: Thu Oct 22 06:08:40 on ttys000
92:~ stephengray$ cd ~/
92:~ stephengray$ touch .bash_profile
-bash: touch: command not found
92:~ stephengray$

This doesn't sound great does it? I've 'played around' trying to get Clang working in the past so perhaps I've messed up a little on the way. After doing some searching it says that the .touch, ls commands come from CoreUtils. Perhaps I have just messed up my PATH structure of something but sadly I've got no idea on how to fix it. Any help would be really appreciated!!

Cheers

Steve

Hey Steve,

"touch" is really just a shortcut way to create the .bash_profile file. Another way would be to just type "edit .bash_profile" That SHOULD open a new file in TextEdit or something similar. Whatever way you can manage to create a new file should work. Let me know if that doesn't work for you...

Hi Patrick, many thanks for the quick response. I think there's an issue with my Mac as if I open up a terminal window and type in edit .bash_profile I get the following:

Last login: Thu Oct 22 16:48:47 on ttys001
92:~ stephengray$ cd ~/
92:~ stephengray$ edit .bash_profile
-bash: edit: command not found
92:~ stephengray$

:-/ Doesn't look good does it?

Cheers
Steve

mmm I think I've got myself to blame on this one when I was trying to get clang installed before

92:~ stephengray$ echo $PATH
/Users/stephengray/documents/Clang/:
92:~ stephengray$

I guess I should have more entries than this?

Thanks for an help you can give Patrick!

Regards

Steve

Hm, you could try typing "pico .bash_profile" and creating/editing a file that way. There's also vim, but that's a bit harder to navigate.

By the way, my $PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin

Thank you so much for this tutorial!
Easy and Straight to the point!
Keep it up!

Hi. Thanks for posting the above, but its not working for me for some reason. When I type in the command cd~/ I just get "no such file or directory. But when I type in the command cd~\ I get > (symbol) allowing me to type in commands.

If I use the back slash \ and type in touch .bash_profile, I just get command not found. Can you provide any insight to what I might be doing wrong.

Disregard my earlier comment. I was not entering the command properly.

What I am still confused on is when the .bash_profile opens up with text editor what am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to write something in there and save it?

Also instruction number 5 is not that clear to me. Could you repost instruction number 5 again please? Am I to type . . bashrc (with 2 dots in the terminal window to reload everything. Sorry to bother. I hope this thread is still active.

Finally got it working. Thanks for the site.

Thank you! Good work.

Thank you, very much!
Simple, concise and works!

Got my 1st Mac, and thanks to this website. I can be able to make it works with my Mac.

How did you get the bashrc bit working?

Great information. I got lucky and found your site from a random Google search. Fortunately for me, this topic just happens to be something that I've been trying to find more info on for research purpose. Keep us the great and thanks a lot.

Worked for me when I used ' . .bash_profile ' for the last line, and ditto Sumit this worked right away. Thank you!!

Wow Thanks!
. .bash_profile! I didn't execute this before I started panicking!
kinda confusing though.. at first I tried with ..bash_profile, thinking the two dots were not seprated:D

Anyways Thanks! It helped!!!

Thanks a lot!!!
It works for me and save my time :)

Nice nam ... keep going!!

Yes, after reading the comments I also got it working.
The last part is really a little confusing.
But thank you for your efforts ;)

I was having some issues with the touch .bash_profile command then I realized that there is a space between "touch" and ".bash_profile"... I retyped the command and it worked!

thank you patrick pico .bash_profile worked for me

its really useful.
thank you.

VarunBatra-iMac:~ varunbatra$ ..bashrc
-bash: ..bashrc: command not found

I am getting this error again and again. Any idea about what i am doing wrong?

You need to type ". .bashrc" (note the SPACE between the first and second ".")

I´m getting the same error, even if I introduce ". .bashrc" with the space in between. It seems that there´s no .bashrc file in my ~/ directory.

Any suggestions?

I think there may have been a typo. Please try the updated #5.

Thanks!

muy buena, me ayudo mucho
so good, hepfull me

Thanks, just searched and found this. Simple and easy, I like it.

It didn't work for me. What should I do?

Thanks a lot!! Very Useful.