MG5 PATH mvn command not found issue

Challenges
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I get the following mvn: command not found error when I set the PATH in my local env…

PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" ./your_program.sh

./your_program.sh: line 17: mvn: command not found

I have a workaround, i.e. include my local maven in the path, which for me is…

PATH="/usr/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin" ./your_program.sh

But was wondering if codecrafters team might have a neater solution.

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Hey @HowieTKL, you don’t actually need to run:

PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" ./your_program.sh

That’s just an example of how our test runner sets the PATH. You can ignore it locally.

Ideally, your shell environment should already have Maven available, so you can just run:

./your_program.sh

Update your shell config file

Depending on your shell, open the appropriate file:

  • ~/.zshrc (for zsh)
  • ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc (for bash)

Then add this line:
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin/:$PATH"

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Thanks Andy. If I ignore it, how else would I test out PATH related changes locally? And your_program.sh works fine as long as I don’t override PATH.

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IIRC, we don’t specifically test for PATH-related changes, but if you’d like to test that locally, you can prepend to your existing PATH like this:

PATH="/foo/bar:$PATH" ./your_program.sh