How can I set PATH environment variables when there is no ~/.profile?

Question

Hi,
I have a MacBook Air and just installed MySQL.
I read the doc which I downloaded and should be able to run "mysql" from terminal as descibed below:
Suppose that your MySQL programs are installed in /usr/local/mysql/bin and that you want to make it easy to invoke these programs. To do this, set the value of the PATH environment variable to include that directory. For example, if your shell is bash, add the following line to your .bashrc file:
           PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/mysql/bin
I checked on my terminal with ls -al, but no ~/.bashrc also no ~/.profile files.  Echo $SHELL shows me that I am using /bin/bash as shell.
When I run export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin  then it works and I just have to type "mysql" to get the mysql command line but as soon as I kill my terminal and open a new terminal this setting is lost.
Any idea how I can accomplish this?
Thanks,
MacNewby

Answer 1

Hi,
Never mind, I found it :-)
I just created a file  .bash_profile in my home folder and added "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin" and restarted my terninal. Now it works.
MacNewby