Apple - How to make an executable .py available everywhere on OS X?
You need to add /foo/bar
to your $PATH
environment variable. Navigate to your home directory by typing cd
at the prompt, then type nano .profile
. Inside this file, add the following line:
export PATH=$PATH:/foo/bar
then save and quit. Exit Terminal.app (or whichever term program you're using) and restart it. /foo/bar
should now be in your search path, to make sure type echo $PATH
and see if it's at the end. You should now be able to run myfile.py
from anywhere.
At your terminal type:
which python
make sure that this path in the shebang at in the 1st line of your .py file. On my system it is
#!/usr/local/bin/python
then 1st try:
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/where/your/script/is
in any terminal
check that the PATH actually stuck by checking:
$PATH
should have path to your script in there now.
you should now be able to launch you script form anywhere.
the PATH will reset once you close terminal though so you should get pay do get it added permanently to your PATH.
good solution is to have the following bit of code in you .bash_profile:
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi
see writeup e.g. http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2005/07/bash_profile_vs.html this will ensure that .bashrc is loaded every time the terminal is launched as well as when you launch a subshell. Put the export
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/where/your/script/is
line somewhere in your .bashrc file. quit and restart terminal. That should sort everything out