无法在Mac OS X Yosemite上修改$ PATH

Question

i just want to start with developing Android Apps on my new mac. Therefore i have to add platform-tools and tools from the Eclipsebundle to my $PATH.

The first thing i did was to add these two folders on my local Administrator-Account which worked fine with the command:

echo 'export PATH=/Users/myname/Desktop/adtbundle/sdk/platform-tools:"$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export PATH=/Users/myname/Desktop/adtbundle/sdk/tools:"$PATH"' >> ~/.profile

So, then i added the MacMini into our Company-Domain and logged in with my Account which is saved in our active directory.

I opened up the Terminal again and typed the two commands, but after that, while i want to verify my new $PATH ( echo $PATH ), my $PATH didn't change. Just the standard folders are in it.

I looked for another How-To to edit the $PATH and tryed it like this:

cd

nano .bash_profile

in my .bash_profile i added:

export PATH="/Users/myname/Desktop/adtbundle/sdk/platform-tools:$PATH"
export PATH="/Users/myname/Desktop/adtbundle/sdk/tools:$PATH"

saved all with control + o confirmed the name by pressing return and then exit nano by clicking control + x

tryed to verify my new $PATH -> it did not change and my bash_profile is empty again - can someone tell me, what i did wrong?

THIS WORKED FOR ME http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/appleosx-bash-unix-change-set-path-environment-variable/

Answer 1

After editing .bash_profile, refresh the bash enviroment by restarting Terminal or typing the following command:

source ~/.bash_profile

' source ' command will execute the contents of the argument supplied.

Answer 2

After you add path to .bash_profile quit the terminal and open it again. the try to echo $PATH. It worked for me. else you can add path to /etc/profile.