[OS X Emacs] where does Mac OS X set default PATH for bash?

[Erik Husby]

Look in these places for bash setups

/etc/profile -- system wide
~/.profile -- personal initialization
~/.bash_profile -- personal initialization
~/.bash_login -- personal initialization
~/.bashrc -- personal initialization

In addition, on Mac OS X, the file
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist

Can be used to define environment variables for applications not  
started from a shell.


On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Art Werschulz wrote:

> Hi.
>
> This is maybe off-topic, but there is a trace of Emcas-ness in what  
> follows.
>
> I am using bash on my Mac OS X (Leopard) box.  My PATH is as follows  
> (slightly reformatted for readability);
> 	/usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin
> 	.
> 	/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin
> 	/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin
> 	/sw/bin
> 	/sw/sbin
> 	/usr/libexec
> 	/Developer/Tools
> 	/usr/local/bin
> 	/usr/local/sbin
> 	/bin
> 	/sbin
> 	/usr/bin
> 	/usr/sbin
> 	/usr/X11R6/bin
> 	/usr/X11/bin
> 	.
>
> I am not crazy about this, for several reasons.  Having a dot  
> (current directory) so high in the list is Bad News from a security  
> viewpoint.  The Emacs.app application doesn't exist on my machine  
> anymore.  I don't want to search /usr/local/texlive/2007, since I'm  
> using the 2008 version of TeXLive.
>
> You may wonder how I'm setting my PATH.  Here's how (i.e., here's  
> the relevant part of .bashrc):
> 	TeX=/usr/local/texlive/2008
> 	(echo $PATH | grep -q /usr/local/sbin) || PATH=/usr/local/sbin:$PATH
> 	(echo $PATH | grep -q /usr/local/bin) || PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
> 	PATH=$TeX/bin/universal-darwin:$PATH
> 	export PATH=${PATH}:.
> So from the looks of things, the default PATH must consist of
> 	.
> 	/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin
> 	/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin
> 	/sw/bin
> 	/sw/sbin
> 	/usr/libexec
> 	/Developer/Tools
> 	/usr/local/bin
> 	/usr/local/sbin
> 	/bin
> 	/sbin
> 	/usr/bin
> 	/usr/sbin
> 	/usr/X11R6/bin
> 	/usr/X11/bin
>
> Since I want to change this, I need to know where this default is  
> set.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Art Werschulz
> 207 Stoughton Avenue, Cranford  NJ 07016-2838
> (908) 272-1146
>
>
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