I ran sudo nano .bashrc and added
export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"
I restarted my terminal, ran laravel and received
laravel: command not found
I had run this prior to the above
composer global require laravel/installer
Also tried executing what I added to .bashrc in the terminal directly.
echo $PATH prints
/home/dev/.composer/vendor/bin:~/.composer/vendor/bin:~/.composer/vendor/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
The directory that Composer uses to store global binaries can be configured, and its default value depends on your operating system. You can see what it's set to by running
composer global config bin-dir --absolute
On your machine that outputs
/home/dev/.config/composer/vendor/bin
so that's what you should add to your PATH:
export PATH="~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"
See also:
~/.composer/ on some machines and ~/.config/composer/ on others.