In .bash_profile already set the path but still got '-bash: mysql: command not found'

Question

I'm quite frustrated that I got the error message trying to use ipython or mysql from the terminal in OSX. It used to work just fine, but now I got the error message. Even if I navigated to where mysql is installed, I still get the error message:

Bruces-MacBook-Pro:bin bruce$ pwd
/usr/local/mysql/bin
Bruces-MacBook-Pro:bin bruce$ ls
innochecksum            mysqlbinlog
lz4_decompress          mysqlcheck
my_print_defaults       mysqld
myisam_ftdump           mysqld-debug
myisamchk           mysqld_multi
myisamlog           mysqld_safe
myisampack          mysqldump
mysql               mysqldumpslow
mysql_client_test_embedded  mysqlimport
mysql_config            mysqlpump
mysql_config_editor     mysqlshow
mysql_embedded          mysqlslap
mysql_install_db        mysqltest_embedded
mysql_plugin            mysqlxtest
mysql_secure_installation   perror
mysql_ssl_rsa_setup     replace
mysql_tzinfo_to_sql     resolve_stack_dump
mysql_upgrade           resolveip
mysqladmin          zlib_decompress
Bruces-MacBook-Pro:bin bruce$ mysql
-bash: mysql: command not found

I did some search, and noticed that I should add the path to the $PATH variable in the .bash_profile , now I just use less .bash_profile to check if this is on my path, below is what I got:

export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"

export PATH="/Users/bruce/anaconda2/bin:$PATH"

export PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:$PATH"

export PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PATH"

export PATH="/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages"

export PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH"

export PATH="/Users/bruce/anaconda/bin:$PATH"

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

export PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH"

export PATH="/bin:$PATH"

export PATH="/usr/sbin:$PATH"

export PATH="/sbin:$PATH"

export PATH="/opt/X11/bin:$PATH"

.bash_profile (END)

(NOTICE: I have several .bash_profilexxxx files here under the home folder. Do I need to modify some of them? Like

.bash_profile
.bash_profile-anaconda.bak
.bash_profile-anaconda2.bak
.bash_profile.macports-saved_2015-12-29_at_23:07:52
.bash_profile.pysave

)

And it seems that I can't find .bash_profile.pysave directly under the home folder, but only available use ls -a command? If I need to modify this file, how?

Answer 1

I just found out why this is happening. I have two disks in my laptop. And many of the files are backed up in the older disk that have the same name. So the .bash_profile which I edited is actually on the older disk, which is not under my home folder.