# Locomotive Terminal destroys my PATH!

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 1, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locomotive-terminal-destroys-my-path/121833 "2007-12-01T17:31:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locomotive-terminal-destroys-my-path/121833/1 "2007-12-01T17:31:16Z")

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I’m using Locomotive 2.0.8 on the Mac.

My .bash\_profile - in its essence - looks like this:

export PATH=.:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH

Now I found that when I open a Terminal from within Locomotive (i.e.  
Applications/OpenTerminal), /usr/local/mysql/bin is missing from my  
PATH (although ~/bin is there).

I traced what happens (set -x in .bash\_profile) and found the  
following:

First, my PATH is set in the expected way, i.e.

- export PATH=.:/Users/fusshuhn/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/  
bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

But after that, I see the following statement in the trace:

source /private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/2A10481D-7F30-4633-  
A1DA-2EBB84EC987A-260-00000575DDDFE4E0.environment.bash

It seems that Locomotive has created a temporary file containing bash  
commands,  
which are now source (after my .bash\_profile). During this process, I  
see the  
execution of the following command:

++ export PATH=/Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/  
standardRailsMar2007.locobundle/i386/bin:  
/Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsMar2007.locobundle/i386/  
sbin:  
/Users/fusshuhn/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:

It is at this place, where my PATH is changed.

Interestingly, Locomotive _does_ include my $HOME/bin. Historically,  
my first version  
of .bash\_profile included only $HOME/bin in my PATH. Then I installed  
Locomotive,  
then I ran the Tools/Terminal.appStartupFixTool, and finally I  
installed MySql and  
updated .bash\_profile so that it now contains also the directory /usr/  
local/mysql/bin.  
Could it be that Locomotive, does not recognized the changes I did in  
my profile?  
Well, I run the StarupFix Tool again, but no change: I still don’t  
have my MySql  
directory included in my PATH…

Is this a bug in Locomotive?

Ronald