I have encountered some strange characters in Terminal's $PATH variable.
$ echo $PATH
/opt/local/bin:...(many similar entries)...:/usr/local/git/bin??n’export
??n’export is what I'm talking about. How do I remove it? I looked in .bacshrc, .bash_profile and similar files, but everything seemed normal there. Problem is that I can't install some new programs with "broken" $PATH.
I'm using bash in Terminal version 2.7.1 and macOS Sierra — Thanks in advance.
The following
perl -e 'printf q{export %s="%s";},$_,join(":",grep{-d $_&&!$seen{$_}++}split/:/,$ENV{$_}), $_ for(qw(PATH))'
will generate for you an new export PATH=..... line, but with cleaned elements. (e.g. no duplicate entries, and removed all nonexiststent directories).
you should copy and paste the result into your $HOME/.profile instead of the existing PATH line.
Problem solved. Strange entries came from /etc/profile file.
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I am attempting to set up the behavior described in the title. For reference, there is an answer which solve this for emacs. I however use DWM/ST and Zsh.
The solutions I have clumsily tried to come um with include modifying the .zshrc file in the with the following lined:
cd $pwd
I have realized this does not make sense as the path displayed by this instance of pwd will in fact be the path in which the terminal itself is opened, which is $HOME. Maybe the solution is messing with ST, but I have not had any ideas of how to do do so. Any help would be appreciated.
it depends on the terminal emulator that you're using: for instance
$lxterminal --working-directory=./
Works for zsh in my manjaro distribution.
in Ubuntu i might use:
$x-terminal-emulator ./
A majority of terminal commands don't work, for example .
ls
sudo
vi
with the error -bash: ls: command not found my path is echo $PATH
“/Users/username/usr/local/bin I get the feeling that “ should not be there but not sure how edit it.
What should the path be and how do I get the path to stay the same?
You need to add more paths to your $PATH variable. Try running whereis ls and check where is the binary of the command.
You can add more paths like this: export PATH=$PATH:NEW_PATH
I had a similar experience recently where a lot of my terminal commands were not being found despite being clearly saved in my bash_profile. After lengthy process of elimination I realised that the issue was caused when I tried to export a new path. The error that I had made was putting a space in the command. So I had to change
export SOMETHING = /path/to/something.apk to
export SOMETHING=/path/to/something.apk
So I would recommend you check all your path declarations to ensure you don't have any white spaces. Also don't forget to source your bash_profile or what ever type of command line shell you use.
For some reason, I am getting all sorts of weird behavior in terminal, I think it's related to my $PATH variable.
If I run this command:
echo $PATH
it outputs this
/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin...........
How do I reset it back to what it should be?
It sounds like your MAMP install has added something to your login script(s), which is adding itself to your PATH repeatedly. Check your ~/.zshrc file for suspicious lines.
I'm trying out zsh as an alternative to bash, and I seem to have messed up my system path on my MacBook Air. Here's the path I have in my .zshrc:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin/:usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin
Some commands like vim work properly, but standards like ls and sed are returning errors like the following:
zsh: command not found: ls
I'm pretty sure it's not just a zsh problem, as launching a bash terminal produces similar results.
It seems like I'm missing an important directory in there somewhere. Any suggestions?
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin/:usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin
there is a / missing in-front of usr/bin
so it should be
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin
maybe this solves your problem.
I don't know what has happened, but in my Terminal on Mac OSX 10.5 it can no longer find my sudo command, or find command, etc. They are there because if I put /usr/bin/sudo or /usr/bin/find it works fine...
My .bash_login file looks like this:
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/bin$PATH"
My .bash_profile file looks like this:
export PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django_trunk/django/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/bin/sudo$PATH"
I'll say now, I don't really know what I'm doing with the Terminal. I'm just a beginner to it all, and I must of done something for the environment variables (is that what they're called?) to be lost. I presumed I'd just have to make sure the /usr/bin/ path is in my bash files, but they are, and it doesn't seem to work. Please help!
Also, when I do use the /usr/bin/find command, it says "Permission denied" to me, even though I am logged into Mac OSX as the System Administrator account. I don't understand.
Any help would be grand. Thank you - James
It looks like both of your PATH exports are malformed:
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/bin$PATH"
The end bit there won't work. It should be:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
Notice the colon before '$PATH'? It's important ;)
Also, the double quotes are not necessary.
If this doesn't work, we will need more information. It is possible that something else is modifying your path even after your shell configurations are loaded.
Can you post the results of:
$ echo $PATH
Configuration files are not always a good indication of the current environment variables, since they are modified by many programs and files, all across your system. To see all of your environment variables, you can run:
$ env
This should fix the problem completely and permanently.
first, export environment paths by using below command in the terminal.
export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
now you have the commands you want. (eg. try ls. You'll see the command is working). But this is only for the current session. If you close the terminal and open a new one, you will have the previous issue. To make this change permanent, use below command,
go to home directory
cd ~
open .bash_profile file in nano / vim (I'm using nano here)
nano .bash_profile
This will open up nano editor. In a new line, paste the following;
export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:$PATH
press 'control'+'o' to save (WriteOut) and 'control'+'x' to exit nano.
All done ! Now try the commands.
Check out --- http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2008/05/26/mac-os-x-tip-setting-path-environment-variables
I went trough the same issue and here is how I solved it.
First of all I reverted the file to its original doing this way
/usr/bin/nano ~/.bash_profile
In my case I was not able to make work any command alias. Even vi or vim didnt work without specifying the full path of that command.
If nano is not installed just replace nano in the command by the editor installed
After that just restart the computer. In my case as I said bellow I could not use any command. When trying to do /usr/bin/source ~/.bash_profile
that command failed. So I had to restart the OS and it worked