MacOSX has a truly global path setting that precedes any other setting like ~/.bash_profile
.
The file /private/etc/paths
is a list of pathnames. The order from top to bottom defines the resulting order in the $PATH
variable.
After loading /private/etc/paths
there is a directory /private/etc/paths.d/
with files in the same style. Those are appended to the $PATH variable.
The default content of /private/etc/paths
looks like this:
/usr/bin
/bin