OSX equivalent for ~/bin in Linux

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When using Ubuntu I can save shell scripts in ~/bin. To launch them I just type the name of the script in the Terminal.
Is there an equivalent solution for OSX?

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There is none by default in OSX. But you can make a ~/bin folder, then edit your ~/.profile and add

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/Yourname/bin

(Yourname of course being replaced by your username).

or (edited later according to below comment)

export PATH=$PATH:~/bin

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When you format a disk with HFS+ you can chose whether the file system should case sensitive or not. If you chose to format with UFS (Unix FileSystem) it is always case sensitive, AFAIK.

To check whether a disk is case sensitive, run:

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For example:

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