What is the proper way to modify environment variables like PATH in OS X?

I’ve looked on Google a little bit and found three different files to edit:

  • /etc/paths
  • ~/.profile
  • ~/.tcshrc

I don’t even have some of these files, and I’m pretty sure that .tcshrc is wrong, since OS X uses bash now. Where are these variables, especially PATH, defined?

I’m running OS X v10.5 (Leopard).

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