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El Capitan pear command not found

I am new to mac and am trying to get pear to run from the terminal. All the scripts are added to the MAMP folder and if I run:

$ sudo /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.10/bin/pear

everything is fine.

However, if I run $sudo pear or pear I get a message: "pear command not found"

My $PATH variable looks like this: 

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.10/bin/pear:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:

When I look for pear with $ locate bin/pear I get the same location as in the path:

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.10/bin/pear

Any idea what can be wrong?

Solution

  • Copied -- in essence -- from a comment:

    Th $PATH environment variable should contain a list of directories to be searched for a command. Having the executable itself as part of the path doesn't help with resolving its location.