How do I edit $PATH (.bash_profile) on OSX?

Gokul Menon
1 min readNov 22, 2020

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  1. Start up Terminal.
  2. Type “cd ~/” to go to your home folder.
  3. Type “touch . bash_profile” to create your new file. If you have already created it , open it using- open -e . bash_profile” to open it in TextEdit
  4. Paste the following :
    export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
    export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/$USER/Library/Android/sdk
    export ANDROID_SDK_HOME=/Users/$USER/Library/Android/sdk
    export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=/Users/$USER/Library/Android/sdk
    export ANDROID_AVD_HOME=/Users/$USER/.android/avd
    export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH
    export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/30.0.2:$PATH
    export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/emulator
    export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH
    export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
    export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$ANDROID_AVD_HOME
  5. Type “source . bash_profile” to reload.

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Gokul Menon
Gokul Menon

Written by Gokul Menon

Engineering at FreeNow Tech.

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