Nix path doesn't add itself in zshrc

[gyanaranjans]

Platform

• [ ] Linux:
• [x] macOS
• [ ] WSL

Additional information

Nix is not in the path after i install nix even though /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh file exists

also Nix configuration is correctly added to the shell initialization files

cat /etc/zshrc /etc/bashrc /etc/bash.bashrc | grep nix
if [ -e '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh' ]; then
  . '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh'
if [ -e '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh' ]; then
  . '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh'
if [ -e '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh' ]; then
  . '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh'
if [ -e '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh' ]; then
  . '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh'

output

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[abathur]

Nix not being on PATH generally points to your shell init files either hard-setting a PATH that doesn't include Nix after Nix's shell hook ran (often from one of the user-specific init files in ~/), or perhaps having an early return condition in the relevant init file that is keeping the shell hook from running at all.

If env | grep NIX shows a few variables, that's a good sign the shell hook is at least running and you can focus on looking for what might be overwriting PATH.