diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/compat/utils.rb b/Library/Homebrew/compat/utils.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7de5e85c32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/compat/utils.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# return the shell profile file based on users' preference shell
+def shell_profile
+  opoo "shell_profile has been deprecated in favor of Utils::Shell.profile"
+  case ENV["SHELL"]
+  when %r{/(ba)?sh} then "~/.bash_profile"
+  when %r{/zsh} then "~/.zshrc"
+  when %r{/ksh} then "~/.kshrc"
+  else "~/.bash_profile"
+  end
+end
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
index f78fbfcb7f..8e6a9b7d7e 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
@@ -519,16 +519,6 @@ def paths
   end.uniq.compact
 end
 
-# return the shell profile file based on users' preference shell
-def shell_profile
-  case ENV["SHELL"]
-  when %r{/(ba)?sh} then "~/.bash_profile"
-  when %r{/zsh} then "~/.zshrc"
-  when %r{/ksh} then "~/.kshrc"
-  else "~/.bash_profile"
-  end
-end
-
 def disk_usage_readable(size_in_bytes)
   if size_in_bytes >= 1_073_741_824
     size = size_in_bytes.to_f / 1_073_741_824
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils/shell.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils/shell.rb
index 19e696795f..c0d6b90ae6 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils/shell.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils/shell.rb
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ module Utils
     def self.prepend_path_in_shell_profile(path)
       case preferred_shell 
       when :bash, :ksh, :sh, :zsh, nil
-        "echo 'export PATH=\"#{sh_quote(path)}:$PATH'\" >> #{shell_profile}"
+        "echo 'export PATH=\"#{sh_quote(path)}:$PATH\"' >> #{shell_profile}"
       when :csh, :tcsh
         "echo 'setenv PATH #{csh_quote(path)}:$PATH' >> #{shell_profile}"
       when :fish