The result of $PATH is:
-bash: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin: No such file or directory.
Apparently the "/usr/local/bin directory" does not exits in Yosemite. Does anybody knows something about this?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
The $PATH environment variable, before you alter it locally in one of your startup dot files, is set to the ordered $PATH that you have shown using /etc/paths as its default template. Thus, /usr/local/bin exists in Yosemite, and earlier OS X releases too. The /opt/X11/bin is added after the installation of XQuartz.
In your case, you typed $PATH in the terminal, which is not a command. If you want to view the current $PATH in the Bash shell, you have choices:
echo $PATH
printf '%s\n' $PATH
env $PATH
First of all many thanks for your response! Yes, my question is why one of the default path parameters is pointing to the non existing directory “usr/local/bin”?
Hello npatronis,
That is a standard location for 3rd party, open source software installations. People expect to add software to /usr/local/bin and have it work immediately.
Hello etresoft,
Thanks! Indeed this must be the reason. Simply I was surprised that the directory was not there even as an empty one.
problem with $PATH
