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Asked: 2026-05-23T20:04:48+00:00

I installed a terminal i my iPhone and I’m trying to install some utilities

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I installed a terminal i my iPhone and I’m trying to install some utilities on it. To achieve it the only thing I have left is to change the order of the PATH variables on the system but I cannot find the place where they’re stored.

When I write $PATH I get

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games

I need to edit the path so the /usr/bin appears before of /usr/local/bin.

I’ve read sites where they tell me to edit ~/.bashrc, ~/.cshrc, ~/.profile or /etc/paths but none of them exist on my system (in fact in ~ there’s just .bash_history and some unimportant directories)

I access to my iPhone (iOS 4.2.1) through ssh from a Leopard MacBook

Any ideas? Thanks

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  1. Editorial Team

    If your .bashrc doesn’t exist, you should be able to create it and set it in there:

    PATH=$PATH:/extra/path/here:/other/path/here
export PATH

    It would appear that you are indeed using bash as your shell since you have a .bash_history, but if you are using a separate shell it could be a separate file.

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