How to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH?

Question

To put this folder on the PATH environment variable type

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"

This appends the folder to your existing PATH, however, it is only active for your current terminal session.

If you want it to be automatically set, it depends on the shell you are using. For bash, you can append this line to $HOME/.bashrc using your favorite editor or type the following on the shell

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc

In order to check if it worked, logout and login again or execute

source ~/.bashrc

on the shell.

PS: For other systems where there is no ~/.bashrc, you can also put this into ~/.bash_profile

PSS: For more recent laravel you need to put $HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin on the PATH.

PSSS: If you want to put this folder on the path also for other shells or on the GUI, you should append the said export command to ~/.profile (cf. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables).

Detailed instructions:

in your ~/.bashrc add these lines:

export PATH="$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin"

Then reload:

source ~/.bashrc

Check if its added correctly:

echo $PATH

/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/web/bin:~/.composer/vendor/bin

In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with composer globally installed, this worked for me.

Edit the .bashrc file in your home directory puting the path to the composer bin folder that is located in /your/home/.config/composer/vendor/bin

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

If not works, verify the path to the composer bin directory and close and reopen the terminal. Otherwise, try to logoff and login in the Ubuntu.

Also works in ubuntu 18.04. Thanks @chifliiiii for your feedback.

For setting the PATH on Yosemite (OS X 10.10.5), use the command below:

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile

To reload either quit terminal and start up again or use:

source ~/.bash_profile

Helped me, hope it helps someone else out there!