Setting $PATH using the terminal

Hi All! I am a newbie with OS X and I am wondering as to how to add a directory into the PATH using the terminal. Thank you very much!

Ustilago wrote:
Hi All! I am a newbie with OS X and I am wondering as to how to add a directory into the PATH using the terminal. Thank you very much!
Welcome to Apple Discussions!!
export PATH=/path/to/your/directory:$PATH
Note that you should supply the complete path to the directory you want to add.
To make this automatic for each time you start the Terminal, you need to arrange for it to appear in ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc. It's best to put it in the latter, since this is run for every Terminal window. ~/.bash_profile is only executed for the initial login window, but you can avoid duplication by having it source ~/.bashrc. Stripped to its essentials, my ~/.bash_profile is just
if [ -r ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
If you have further questions, you might find posting them in the UNIX forum better. One of the regular posters there, Bill Scott, has this page which you may find useful: Unix Links, especially under the Mac OS X heading.

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First off I have a 3tb fusion drive.
I created a 200gb bootcamp, I tried deleting the bootcamp because I thought I messed it up and googled how to delete a mac partition which told me to use Disk Utility, did that and then erased it and somehow it got locked and wouldn't let me do anything to any partition on my hard drive (everything was greyed out)
After looking up and googling for hours I found a post saying the only way to fix it would be to go into CMD+R and go into the terminal window and type out disklist and then find the first UUID number and do something along the lines of disklist delete (UUID) i forget the exact formula. I did this, and then I had 3 separate untitled hard drives.
One in the size of 1.9gb on in 800gb and one in 121.3gb (which is the SSD), I put my time machine backup onto the 1.9gb untitled and now my computer is booting slowly (because it's no longer running off of the SSD and the original bootcamp is still there.
To be honest I am absolutely confused on what else to do!
Is there anyway I can fix this?

How do I go about deleting and then re-adding the hard drives? Completely lost on how to make it back to being a 3gb fusion drive.
Thank you for all your help, I honestly really appreciate it.
I followed your instructions and got the following
diskutil list:
-bash-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            120.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         1.9 TB     disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:          Apple_CoreStorage                         251.9 GB   disk1s4
   5:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s5
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *1.3 GB     disk2
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         30.7 KB    disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS OS X Base System        1.3 GB     disk2s2
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Untitled               *1.9 TB     disk3
                                 Logical Volume on disk1s2
                                 FD9357F1-1A71-44A0-A01E-41C84F1C8047
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Untitled               *251.5 GB   disk4
                                 Logical Volume on disk1s4
                                 31B60F49-6981-47A3-9815-6396AD3A9BD6
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *5.2 MB     disk5
/dev/disk6
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk6
/dev/disk7
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk7
/dev/disk8
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk8
/dev/disk9
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk9
/dev/disk10
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk10
/dev/disk11
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *6.3 MB     disk11
/dev/disk12
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *2.1 MB     disk12
/dev/disk13
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *1.0 MB     disk13
/dev/disk14
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk14
/dev/disk15
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk15
/dev/disk16
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *1.0 MB     disk16
/dev/disk17
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *319.4 GB   disk17
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk17s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS IMAC TMB                319.0 GB   disk17s2
/dev/disk18
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *6.3 MB     disk18
/dev/disk19
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:        CD_partition_scheme                        *804.4 MB   disk19
   1:     Apple_partition_scheme                         700.4 MB   disk19s0
   2:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk19s0s1
   3:                  Apple_HFS WD SmartWare            237.5 MB   disk19s0s2
-bash-3.2#
diskutil cs list
-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (2 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 687E889E-B4A1-4F20-8B36-43D7A3701076
|   =========================================================
|   Name:         Untitled
|   Status:       Online
|   Size:         1946162462720 B (1.9 TB)
|   Free Space:   5402624 B (5.4 MB)
|   |
|   +-< Physical Volume 7BCD8D9C-AEB2-4D48-B248-257EFC7EA922
|   |   ----------------------------------------------------
|   |   Index:    0
|   |   Disk:     disk1s2
|   |   Status:   Online
|   |   Size:     1946162462720 B (1.9 TB)
|   |
|   +-> Logical Volume Family 3A8A9627-5963-49BA-8E2F-96DC7A1B033D
|       ----------------------------------------------------------
|       Encryption Status:       Unlocked
|       Encryption Type:         None
|       Conversion Status:       NoConversion
|       Conversion Direction:    -none-
|       Has Encrypted Extents:   No
|       Fully Secure:            No
|       Passphrase Required:     No
|       |
|       +-> Logical Volume FD9357F1-1A71-44A0-A01E-41C84F1C8047
|           ---------------------------------------------------
|           Disk:                  disk3
|           Status:                Online
|           Size (Total):          1945804734464 B (1.9 TB)
|           Conversion Progress:   -none-
|           Revertible:            No
|           LV Name:               Untitled
|           Volume Name:           Untitled
|           Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 98213AE6-9EA8-4FB7-8B72-8E08BFBFD82C
    =========================================================
    Name:         Untitled
    Status:       Online
    Size:         251864797184 B (251.9 GB)
    Free Space:   5226496 B (5.2 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 20CEF763-635D-4A0D-A107-40E8FB161D06
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk1s4
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     251864797184 B (251.9 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 2D3173B3-5B04-47E6-B331-49D1BA58E9F2
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 31B60F49-6981-47A3-9815-6396AD3A9BD6
            Disk:                  disk4
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          251507245056 B (251.5 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Untitled
            Volume Name:           Untitled
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
-bash-3.2#
Disk0
-bash-3.2# gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175
      start       size index contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 235298960      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
235708600    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
236978136          7
236978143         32         Sec GPT table
236978175          1         Sec GPT header
-bash-3.2#
Disk1
-bash-3.2# gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=3000592982016; sectorsize=512; blocks=5860533168
gpt show: /dev/disk1: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 5860533167
       start        size index contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640 3801098560      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3801508200     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3802777736        1912
3802779648   491923432      4 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
4294703080      262144      5 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
4294965224 1565567911
5860533135          32         Sec GPT table
5860533167           1         Sec GPT header
-bash-3.2#

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Message was edited by: MichaelEastick

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