Auto create ~/.bash_profile about astro-cli HOT 6 CLOSED

@tedmiston What OS? If a user has deleted their ~/.bash_profile they have likely done so for a reason. I'm not opposed, just one thing to consider

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He was on macOS (not sure which version). In his case the file was renamed, potentially out of error or mistake because he had no other commands in it.

Do you know if an empty ~/.bash_profile is automatically created for a new user account on macOS / Linux? I'm not sure.

If it's automatically created and the user doesn't have one, perhaps we could output an error message something like:

Please create a .bash_profile so that we can add the CLI binary to your $PATH.

    $ touch ~/.bash_profile

What do you think?

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I'm 90% sure either .bash_profile or .bashrc has to be created on OS X, but could be misremembering.

In my opinion, if the file doesn't exist we should just output a message like:

Couldn't automatically add astro-cli to your path.  Add the following to your profile:
export PATH="$PATH:/path/to/astro"

That being said, aren't we already putting astro-cli in /usr/local/bin or something?

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Yeah, personally I prefer being given the command to add to my profile vs having a script modify my profile for me. Partly because I put most commands in .bashrc instead of .bash_profile myself.

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Yea, astro should be installed into standard path that should already exist in $PATH. Where in our installation does it append this?

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i'd say we should detect presence of ~/.bash_profile and tell them they need create it before proceeding, could link to a guide

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