OSX -bash: composer: command not found

The path /usr/local/bin/composer is not in your PATH, executables in that folder won't be found.

Delete the folder /usr/local/bin/composer, then run

$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

This moves composer.phar into /usr/local/bin/ and renames it into composer (which is still an executable, not a folder).

Then just use it like:

$ composer ...

Well I tried a lot of things but none seemed to be working. But the following process did it right, I can now use composer command in terminal. I'm in mac OS 10.12.1

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ chmod +x composer.phar
$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
$ composer

I get into the same issue even after moving the composer.phar to '/usr/local/bin/composer' using the following command in amazon linux.

mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

I used the following command to create a alias for the composer file. So now its running globally.

alias composer='/usr/local/bin/composer'

I don't know whether this will work in OS-X. But when i search with this issue i get this link. So I'm just posting here. Hope this will help someone.

Tested on Mac OSX after installing via instructions on composer website:

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer