Replicate $PATH From Your Terminal.app Environment to Keyboard Maestro

[ccstone]

Hey Folks,

Some folks struggle when they find out that the default $PATH from their Terminal.app environment is NOT replicated in Keyboard Maestro.

There's a simple way to work around this, and that is to add a variable named ENV_PATH to Keyboard Maestro and give it the same path you can find in your Terminal by using the command echo $PATH.

I have automated this process in the appended macro.

-Chris

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NOTE:

If using macOS Ventura or later you'll need to change “Preferences” to “Settings” in the Select or Show a Menu Item action in the macro.

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Download: Make ENV_PATH Variable in Keyboard Maestro Using the Terminal v1.00.kmmacros (12 KB)

Macro Image

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[ccstone]

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Hey Folks,

Here's a pretty painless way to to compare your macOS Terminal and Keyboard Maestro $PATH strings.

• KM creates it's own environment for shell scripts it is often at variance with the Terminal environment.
• The user is responsible for managing these differences.
• Hopefully this tool will help with that.

-Chris

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Download: Compare Terminal & Keyboard Maestro $PATH Strings v1.00.kmmacros (14 KB)

Macro-Image

Macro-Notes

• Macros are always disabled when imported into the Keyboard Maestro Editor.
  • The user must ensure the macro is enabled.
  • The user must also ensure the macro's parent macro-group is enabled.

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System Information

• macOS 10.14.6
• Keyboard Maestro v10.2

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[rkaplan]

Greetings- Can you suggest how to revise this to work with zsh?

[ccstone]

Try adding a zsh shebang line to the execute shell script action.

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

Let me know if that works.

[jackk]

I changed Preference to Settings in order to make it work in Keyboard Maestro 11.0.3 on macOS 15.2.

Make ENV_PATH Variable in Keyboard Maestro Using the Terminal v1.1.kmmacros (12.6 KB)