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I'm on mac os x 10.6 aka snow leopard and I seen when I do echo $PATH some strange characters are appended to it. My path looks like:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin:â\200\234\200\235
I've tried to see where it comes from but now I'm starting to question my Mac OS X knowledge more. I removed the export path stmts from ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile. logged out, logged in no change. I moved the contents from `/etc/paths.d away. still same path. (exclude path_helper) I commented out the contents of /etc/profile logged out restart computer, still same characters.
I'm getting a bit worried that something evil is residing on my machine, or am I overlooking something?
BTW there are 2 user accounts on my mac, and the other is normal. Hope somebody can shine a light.
dr jerry
Posted 2011-02-12T12:14:11.650
Reputation: 169
You also need to look in ~/MacOSX/environment.plist and see if there is a <key>PATH</key> entry – user151019 – 2011-02-12T12:19:50.290
Thanks for your reply, I would have voted it if it were answered :-). I just restarted again, after completely removing that file, and I wanted tot add that this did reset my PATH parameter. Also apparently the file /etc/paths is also read. Question remains how to open the .MacOSX/environment.plit with property list editor as I cannot find a way to select a directory starting with a . (as in .MacOSX) – dr jerry – 2011-02-12T12:34:57.840