need help cleaning out my Path Variable in Mac

Question

when I typed $PATH i noticed a jungle

-bash: /Users/patrick/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@Rails/bin:/Users/patrick/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@global/bin:/Users/patrick/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin:/Users/patrick/.rvm/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/patrick/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@Rails/bin:/Users/patrick/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@global/bin:/Users/patrick/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin:/Users/patrick/.rvm/bin:/opt/sm/bin:/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin:/opt/sm/pkg/active/sbin:/opt/sm/bin:/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin:/opt/sm/pkg/active/sbin: No such file or directory

how should I go about cleaning this as it seems to be everywhere

update: I added this function in .bash_profile, so it's more readable

function path(){
    old=$IFS
    IFS=:
    printf "%s\n" $PATH
    IFS=$old
} 

• /Users/patrick/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@Rails/bin
• /Users/patrick/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@global/bin
• /Users/patrick/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin
• /Users/patrick/.rvm/bin
• /usr/bin
• /bin
• /usr/sbin
• /sbin
• /usr/local/bin
• /usr/X11/bin
• /Users/patrick/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@Rails/bin
• /Users/patrick/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@global/bin
• /Users/patrick/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin
• /Users/patrick/.rvm/bin
• /opt/sm/bin
• /opt/sm/pkg/active/bin
• /opt/sm/pkg/active/sbin
• /opt/sm/bin
• /opt/sm/pkg/active/bin
• /opt/sm/pkg/active/sbin

I guess I have some duplicates due to rvm and jewelrybox.

Answer 1

check your .bash_profile for a line similar to this:

[[ -s "/Users/USER/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "/Users/USER/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function*

and remove any duplicates of that, that should fix your rvm duplicates.