MacOS – Change PHP $PATH setting

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How to change PHP $PATH setting?

I am using MAMP 2.x, my terminal for PHP command is already set to the MAMP PHP 5.3.x, but now I want to change to PHP 5.2.x

I have done this before, but i forget the location of the file.

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I found it, it located at /etc/paths we can edit it from terminal with this code

sudo nano /etc/paths

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The error message you listed is the result of using one of

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in one of your initialization files. To find the offending line you need to look into all the .profile, .bash_profile and anything sourced/called from there and grep for 'export ' to find it.

As it seams to be related to the installation of either PEAR or MAMP I would start looking at any additions done by these installations.

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