I'm on mac os x 10.6 aka snow leopard and I seen when I do echo $PATH some strange characters are appended to it. My path looks like:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin:รข\200\234\200\235
I've tried to see where it comes from but now I'm starting to question my Mac OS X knowledge more. I removed the export path stmts from ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile.
logged out, logged in no change.
I moved the contents from `/etc/paths.d away. still same path. (exclude path_helper)
I commented out the contents of /etc/profile logged out restart computer, still same characters.
I'm getting a bit worried that something evil is residing on my machine, or am I overlooking something?
BTW there are 2 user accounts on my mac, and the other is normal.
Hope somebody can shine a light.
Answer
Paths are also read for apps launched from the Finder or desktop from ~/MacOSX/environment.plist.
I think /etc/paths is read only if ~/.bashrc is not there
To see hidden files from a Snow Leopard file open dialog hit Shift-Cmd-.
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