MacOS – Can homebrew and RVM agree on a $PATH

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I'm trying to install Yeoman.io and part of it requires Homebrew to be installed. I am on Mountain Lion (10.8) and things seemed to install correctly except when I run $ homebrew doctor it complains with the following message:

Warning: Homebrew's sbin was not found in your path.
Consider amending your PATH variable so it contains:
/usr/local/sbin

Here is what my ~/.bashrc looks like:

#PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin # Add RVM to PATH for scripting
setenv PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$HOME/.rvm/bin:$PATH

and my .bash_profile looks like:

[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

I use RVM so it's written in its own stuff in case that affects the homebrew installation.

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Your path (as shown) doesn't contain /usr/local/sbin. Add that in the line where you set the path. Also, bash doesn't use setenv; just use PATH=....

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