Set a custom PATH for the fish shell

Posted on Sat 10 February 2018 in misc

To use the mac ports system for custom software on MacOS you need to modify your local PATH variable for your used shell. For bash this is done in the ~/.profile configuration.

To archive the same if you're using the fish shell, you should use set -U fish_user_paths $fish_user_paths /opt/local/bin/

I added two path extensions by:

set -U fish_user_paths $fish_user_paths /opt/local/bin/
set -U fish_user_paths $fish_user_paths /opt/local/sbin/

This makes the mac ports commands available if you open a fish shell.

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