Not able to access adb in OS X through Terminal, "command not found"
adb, android, macos
Solution
The problem is: `adb` is not in your `PATH`. This is where the shell looks for executables. You can check your current `PATH` with `echo $PATH`.
Bash will first try to look for a binary called `adb` in your Path, and not in the current directory. Therefore, if you are currently in the `platform-tools` directory, just call
./adb --help
The dot is your current directory, and this tells Bash to use `adb` from there.
But actually, you should add `platform-tools` to your `PATH`, as well as some other tools that the Android SDK comes with. This is how you do it:
Find out where you installed the Android SDK. This might be (where `$HOME` is your user's home directory) one of the following (or verify via Configure > SDK Manager in the Android Studio startup screen):
- Linux: `$HOME/Android/Sdk`
- macOS: `$HOME/Library/Android/sdk`
Find out which shell profile to edit, depending on which file is used:
- Linux: typically `$HOME/.bashrc`
- macOS: typically `$HOME/.bash_profile`
- With Zsh: `$HOME/.zshrc`
Open the shell profile from step two, and at the bottom of the file, add the following lines. Make sure to replace the path with the one where you installed `platform-tools` if it differs:
export ANDROID_HOME="$HOME/Android/Sdk"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH"
Save the profile file, then, re-start the terminal or run `source ~/.bashrc` (or whatever you just modified).
Note that setting `ANDROID_HOME` is required for some third party frameworks, so it does not hurt to add it.
Problem
I have installed Android SDK and Eclipse on my Mac system. I am able to program using Eclipse and have created few sample applications. But I am still not able to access `adb` through the terminal window. I have tried following command in terminal: ``` $ pwd /Users/espireinfolabs/Desktop/soft/android-sdk-mac_x86/platform-tools $ ls NOTICE.txt dexdump llvm-rs-cc-2 aapt dx llvm-rs-cc.txt adb lib source.properties aidl llvm-rs-cc $ adb --help -bash: adb: command not found ``` I have also added the `ls` output so that you know in which window I am.