macos - Mongod: Command Not Found (OS X)

Question

I am trying to test MongoDB and I have it all downloaded and moved into the root folder. I can navigate to the folder that holds the mongod, but when I try to run it by typing "mongod" into my terminal, I get a message that says:

"mongod: command not found"

Answer 1

Both answers above are correct. You can either specify the path in one of the following files: .profile, .bashrc, or .bash_profile

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/mongodb/bin"

then call the daemon or the shell directly

mongod
mongo

Or for the commands not in the $PATH, use ./mongo or ./mongod from the directory containing these files. This solution can be verbose has you will have to eventually append the whole path when calling these commands from another directory.

/usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongod
or
/usr/local/mongodb/bin$ ./mongod