Cannot find the file containing $path

Question

If I type echo $PATH on my macbook's terminal, this is the output:

/Users/lkloh/Library/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/Users/lkloh/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448@rails3tutorial2ndEd/bin:/Users/lkloh/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448@global/bin:/Users/lkloh/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/bin:/Users/lkloh/.rvm/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/Users/lkloh/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/pysmo-aimbat-0.1.2/scripts:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/texbin:/opt/sm/bin:/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin:/opt/sm/pkg/active/sbin

However, if I do vi .bash_profile, this is what I get, and I can't remove the extra links i see in the path.

# Added by Canopy installer on 2014-05-04
# VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT can be set to '' to make bashprompt show that Canopy is     active, otherwise 1
VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT=1 source     /Users/lkloh/Library/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/bin/activate

I did vi .profile, and it does not exist. I also did .bash_rc, and it does not exist. How can I find the file with the sym links I see in my $PATH variable? I want to delete some of them.

Answer 1

Mac OS X setting of environment variables, at the OS desktop level, is quite obscure. There are several useful links in the "Mac OS X" section of this article: https://support.enthought.com/entries/23665767-How-do-I-set-PYTHONPATH-and-other-environment-variables-for-Canopy-