how to set global PATH on OS X?

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Published on 2009-05-31T19:08:20Z Indexed on 2012/11/18 11:10 UTC
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I'd like to append to the global PATH variable on OS X so that all user shells and GUI applications get the same PATH environment.

I know I can append to the path in shell startup scripts, but those settings are not inherited by GUI applications.

The only way I found so far is to redefine the PATH environment variable in /etc/launchd.conf:

setenv PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/my/path

I coulnd't figure out a way to actually append to PATH in launchd.conf.

I'm a bit worried about this method, but so far this is the only thing that works. Does anyone know of a better way?

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