How to add a command to $PATH for Mac zsh

Lance Watanabe
Oct 12, 2022

Tired of getting command not found? Here’s a quick guide

  • Navigate to the bin folder for your CLI application in your command line. Then run pwd to “print working directory.”
pwdoutput: /Users/yourcomputer/Documents/google-cloud-sdk/bin
  • append the directory to the $PATH using the following command
path+=('/Users/yourcomputer/Documents/google-cloud-sdk/bin')
  • export the new path
export PATH

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