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RE: How can I add CW Utilities into PATH on Mac?

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Jordan James, modified 3 Years ago.

How can I add CW Utilities into PATH on Mac?

Youngling Posts: 1 Join Date: 5/12/20 Recent Posts

After downloading CW Utilities, I have attempted to use tools like cwregister2 in Terminal, but my computer does not recognize the tool unless I manually import cwregister2 each time I open a new Terminal window by typing /Applications/CoastWatch\ Utilities/bin/cwregister2. I tried to reroute PATH to include the CW Utilities bin, but the command is still not found. Is there a way to add CW Utilities into PATH so I don't have to manually import tools before each use?

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Peter Hollemans, modified 3 Years ago.

RE: How can I add CW Utilities into PATH on Mac?

Youngling Posts: 2 Join Date: 9/30/20 Recent Posts

Take a look in the User's Guide in the Introduction, Section 1.2 Installation Notes, under Installing on Unix, which includes macOS.  What you'll find is that you can set the $PATH variable in your macOS user account in your ~/.profile file, something like this:

export PATH=${PATH}:"/Applications/CoastWatch Utilities/bin"

I also like to add to the $MANPATH variable like this:

export MANPATH=${MANPATH}:"/Applications/CoastWatch Utilities/doc/man"

so that I can type "man cwrender" for example, and get a formatted man page.  For these settings to take effect, just start a new Terminal window.