MacOS – echo ‘export PATH=“/usr/local/thesql/bin:$PATH”’ >> ~/.bash_profile by using this command getting permission denied

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I tried to follow the instructions in How to add MySQL to $PATH variable to resolve "mysql: command not found"?

$ echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
zsh: permission denied: /Users/naveenkumarp/.bash_profile

Can any one help me to solve this issue?

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I would use the nano editor to edit the correct file for your shell, which is zsh, not bash.

nano ~/.zshrc

Put this line in at the top of the file

typeset -U path PATH

Put this line towards the bottom and save:

path+=/usr/local/mysql/bin

Press the control key and the X key to exit (see the bottom of the nano window for more commands). If you then quit your terminal app, you can test for mysql being in your path.

You can tell your shell with echo $SHELL and if you want bash since all your instructions are in it, you can go back to that if needed with chsh /bin/bash in which case you would nano the file ~/.bash_profile since each shell reads different start up files. I recommend learning zsh and finding guides that work there, though.

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Your question is unclear as it seems to ask several things. However the issue re launching from the Dock can be answered.

The Dock does not call a shell. .profile and other startup scripts are only run when Terminal.app or similar starts a shell or you run a shell script via launchd etc.

To change the path used for Apps launched from the Dock, Finder or other GUI then you need to change the path your Workspace uses this is in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist e.g. mine is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
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  <key>PATH</key>
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</dict>
</plist>

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You certainly don't need to reinstall - just remove the offending last line of the file and restart terminal to see the effects.

If you don't know how to edit the file from terminal, you can open the file in your system's default plain text editor:

/usr/bin/open ~/.bash_profile

Just delete the last line and save the file. (The >> tacks the output of the echo on to the end of the file) At that point, quit terminal, reopen terminal and test brew doctor again.

Apple has an overview of editors you can use in terminal if you want to edit files more regularly.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4850

For beginners, the nano editor is perhaps the easiest since it has visible help for basic commands. You can get some more guided help on nano from the web by opening the URL in your preferred browser (or having terminal do that for you open http://www.nano-editor.org/).

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