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zsh: command not found: bun

Hello, my fellow readers!
When I first tried to set up bun I expected that Bun would work from any location on my disk. However, I encountered zsh: command not found when I tried running bun command from my repository.

The next second, I googled this error and found what seems to be the most-viewed topic on the matter here stackoverflow.
People suggest fixing this issue by adding in .bashrc file such code

export BUN_INSTALL="/home/YOUR_USERNAME/.bun"
export PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"
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Unfortunately, this didn't work on my Mac and I realized that .bashrc is for Linux OS and working solution in my case is:

  1. Go to /Users/{your username}
  2. Create .zshrc file if it doesn’t already exist
  3. Add the following code to the .zshrc file
export BUN_INSTALL="$HOME/.bun"
export PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"
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I hope this information is helpful to someone!

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