Setting environment variables on OS X

Question

What is the proper way to modify environment variables like PATH in OS X?

I\'ve looked on Google a little bit and found three different files to edit:

Answer 1

For a single user modification, use ~/.profile of the ones you listed. The following link explains when the different files are read by Bash.

http://telin.ugent.be/~slippens/drupal/bashrc_and_others

If you want to set the environment variable for gui applications you need the ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file