Setting PATH environment variable in MAC

This probably most of the MAC users must be knowing, but still would like to document it.:

I had a pain myself figuring the way out. Following is the way(or should i say PATH??) to do it:

• In your terminal, type cd /etc/paths.d/
• touch mysql(this could be any name)
• sudo vi mysql
• [press i to insert] type in the path u want to append to the $PATH variable. In my case i wanted to set mysql’s path. So i had to type(copy paste rather) /usr/local/mysql/bin
• [esc] :wq! to save the file.

U are done..

There is another way to set up $PATH, which is rather simple but wont be persisted with new sessions(new terminal or terminal tab).

To do so, in terminal u can just say export PATH=$PATH:<the path u want to append>

for ex., PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin

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