title: AWS CLI $PATH Settings
body: <p>I am following the <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html#install-bundle-other-os" rel="noreferrer">AWS CLI Setup guide</a>. I have managed to successfully install the tool on my Mac OS X terminal with the following output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Running cmd: /usr/bin/python virtualenv.py --python /usr/bin/python /Users/fr/.local/lib/aws
  Running cmd: /Users/fr/.local/lib/aws/bin/pip install --no-index --find-links file:///Users/fr/Downloads/awscli-bundle/packages awscli-1.5.3.tar.gz
  You can now run: /Users/fr/.local/lib/aws/bin/aws --version
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My issue is that I have to type the full path <strong>/Users/fr/.local/lib/aws/bin/aws</strong> to execute any <strong>aws</strong> command. As per the guide's final step, I should be able to execute aws command directly without typing the absolute path for it to execute.</p>
  
  <p>When I try using just <strong>aws</strong>, I get the following output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>aws --version                                                                                         ⏎
  command not found: aws
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I followed the instructions to make sure that <strong>~/bin</strong> is in my <strong>PATH</strong> environment and I could see there was no output, hence, I executed the export <strong>PATH=~/bin:$PATH</strong> command to add <strong>~/bin to $PATH</strong>. But this has made no difference. The <strong>aws</strong> command does not work directly.</p>
  
  <p>Could someone please advise what could be going wrong?</p>