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= Installing the Knative CLI for macOS

If you are using macOS, you can install the Knative (`kn`) CLI as a binary file. To do this, you must download and unpack a `tar.gz` archive and add the binary to a directory on your `PATH`.

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.Procedure

. Download the link:https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/serverless/latest/kn-macos-amd64.tar.gz[Knative (`kn`) CLI `tar.gz` archive].

. Unpack and extract the archive.

. Move the `kn` binary to a directory on your `PATH`.

. To check your `PATH`, open a terminal window and run:
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$ echo $PATH
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