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Years ago I added /usr/local/bin myself to .bash_profile.
I noticed recently that I had a duplicate in my PATH and it's /usr/local/bin. I am guessing Apple made this change recently?
I removed it— but curious:
Thanks!
iMac 27", macOS 10.14
My old El Capitan system was the beginning of the /usr/local/bin as the last entry in /etc/paths, and everything since has followed that configuration including Catalina 10.15.4.
Here is a case in point. I installed the Command Line tools for Xcode 11 in Catalina. It turns out that for the first time, Apple installs an outdated, and thinned /usr/bin/python3. I also happen to deliberately install Python 3.8.2 from Python.org, which links its binaries into /usr/local/bin/python3, pip3, idle3, etc. This is why I have to explicitly avoid Apple's Python3 by prefacing my PATH with /usr/local/bin. If I didn't do this, then #!/usr/bin/env python3 would pick up Apple's junk Python.
My old El Capitan system was the beginning of the /usr/local/bin as the last entry in /etc/paths, and everything since has followed that configuration including Catalina 10.15.4.
Here is a case in point. I installed the Command Line tools for Xcode 11 in Catalina. It turns out that for the first time, Apple installs an outdated, and thinned /usr/bin/python3. I also happen to deliberately install Python 3.8.2 from Python.org, which links its binaries into /usr/local/bin/python3, pip3, idle3, etc. This is why I have to explicitly avoid Apple's Python3 by prefacing my PATH with /usr/local/bin. If I didn't do this, then #!/usr/bin/env python3 would pick up Apple's junk Python.
I think Apple made this change back in El Capitan. Sent them a bug report and they told me to go pound sand as they had already decided on this change that did not exist in OS X previously. The last entry in /etc/paths is /usr/local/bin now.
If you have installed something in /usr/local/bin that has a name collision with anything installed by Apple in the other paths, then it is necessary to deliberately place /usr/local/bin before the default PATH contents, even though this is redundant.
This is what I have in 10.14 (Mojave)
$ cat /etc/paths
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin/
I think that is/was the default for Mac OS Catalina, Mojave, and newer macOS versions.
Whereas:
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
was the default for Mac OS X High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Mavericks, and earlier
This must be when SIP was introduced? Hard to believe I missed that for all of these years.
For posterity...
The default entries in /private/etc/paths in El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina and newer are:
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
The default entries in /private/etc/paths for Mavericks and earlier was:
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
$PATHS When did Apple add /usr/local/bin/ to private/etc/paths?