How to add /usr/local/bin in $PATH on Mac

The PATH variable holds a list of directories separated by colons, so if you want to add more than one directory, just put a colon between them:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/bin

That syntax works in any Bourne-compatible shell (sh, ksh, bash, zsh...). But zsh, which is the default shell in recent versions of MacOS, also exposes the PATH another way - as a variable named (lowercase) $path, which is an array instead of a single string. So you can do this instead:

path+=(/usr/local/git/bin /usr/local/bin) 

In either case, you may want to check to make sure the directory isn't already in the PATH before adding it. Here's what that looks like using the generic syntax:

for dir in /usr/local/git/bin /usr/local/bin; do
   case "$PATH" in 
     $dir:*|*:$dir:*|*:$dir) :;; # already there, do nothing
     *) PATH=$PATH:$dir          # otherwise add it
   esac
done

And here's a zsh-specific version:

for dir in /usr/local/git/bin /usr/local/bin; do
  if (( ${path[(i)$dir]} > $#path )); then
    path+=($dir)
  fi
done

Try placing $PATH at the end.

export PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

To make the edited value of path persists in the next sessions

cd ~/
touch .bash_profile
open .bash_profile

That will open the .bash_profile in editor, write inside the following after adding what you want to the path separating each value by column.

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/bin:

Save, exit, restart your terminal and enjoy

I've had the same problem with you.

cd to ../etc/ then use ls to make sure your "paths" file is in , vim paths, add "/usr/local/bin" at the end of the file.