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oh my zsh permissions error with MAMP

I ran into an issue with MAMP 4 using PHP 5.6.27 or 7.0.12 and WP CLI 0.25.0 using 5.6.25 by default. According to the WP CLI docs, to use MAMP’s version of PHP, I should prepend my $PATH with:

PHP_VERSION=ls /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/ | sort -n | tail -1
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/${PHP_VERSION}/bin:$PATH

I’m using Oh My ZSH and when I add that to my .zshrc file, I have:

export PATH="~/.rbenv/shims:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
# Homebrew
export PATH=/usr/local/Homebrew/:$PATH
# Use MAMP's version of PHP.
PHP_VERSION=ls /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/ | sort -n | tail -1
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/${PHP_VERSION}/bin:$PATH

Now, when I run source .zshrc or open a new terminal window to use the new configuration, I get an error /Users/USERNAME/.zshrc:60: permission denied: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/.

I’ve tried modifying the MAMP directory with chown and that doesn’t seem to be the issue. My .zshrc file in the home directory is symlinking to a dot files directory elsewhere, but I tried placing it directly in ~/ without success.

Any ideas why I might be getting that permissions error?

Solution

  • PHP_VERSION=ls /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/ | sort -n | tail -1

    should be

    PHP_VERSION=$(ls /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/ | sort -n | tail -1)