Mac OS X 10.6: run particular command line at terminal start up

Question

I use mercurial and I need to run the command line below each time I open Terminal.

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

Is there any way to add this command line to Terminal start-up? So I don't have to run this command each time manually...

Answer 1

Such a command can be added to your .profile (a text file) in your home folder. The .profile (and .bash_profile if you use bash) file is run every time you start a new session in Terminal.

Just copy and paste that line into your favourite plain text editor (eg. TextMate, BBEdit, etc.) and save it as .profile (NO .txt EXTENSION) in your home folder. Alternatively you can use the command line integration eg. mate ~/.profile to make it easier to save.