I changed the bash profile while trying to install mongodb and none of my command lines are working on terminal. I read online that I need to fix the $PATH but I can't even access it when none of my commands are working.
Help?
Mistakenly I also ran into same problem where to resolve this I had to reset my PATH variable to basic settings as below :
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin"
Once you set PATH variable now you can open the .bash_profile file in same terminal session only and make changes accordingly. This will resolve your problem.
Ok I found the answer from here:
"Open Terminal, and go to File (or Shell) -> New Command. Type in open -e .profile (or substitute some other file instead of .profile), and hit Run. That should open TextEdit with the file you want to fix; you can remove the offending lines there."
in my case i typed in nano .bash_profile and that allowed me to edit my bash profile and fix the issue.
can't use terminal from error in .bash_profile
Run this in terminal:
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
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I have macOS Sierra version 10.12.6
I tried to add a path using the terminal. I entered source ~/.bash_profile and then a text file opened and I entered my path.
But then the terminal stopped responding and bash commands are not recognizable anymore.
If I enter: source ~/.bash_profile nothing happens.
And if I enter any environment related command an error message shows: -bash: printenv: command not found
How can I fix this?
You've probably messed up your path. When you're setting a path it's important to append to it rather than overwrite, or you lose access to all the system paths; /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/sbin etc. When setting a new path make sure you use:
$PATH=$PATH:/path/to/add
You can fix this by removing the line from .bash_profile where you overwrote the path. Please paste the contents of .bash_profile if this does not work.
You've replaced $PATH with some of your values and you might not be able to update .bash_profile because of the unavailability of nano. Use the following command to access nano and environment variables.
export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin"
After using the command you can use nano ~/.bash_profile to fix the problem.
I exported a PATH that is incorrect in my bash profile, and I can no longer open it to edit it. Even worse, my terminal is basically completely broken because of this.
If I run vim ~/.bash_profile
I get the following errors:
-bash: vim: command not found
-bash: sed: command not found
If I try to use a command like ls I get:
-bash: ls: command not found
-bash: sed: command not found
How can I fix my bash profile if I can't even edit it?
Your terminal isn't broken, bash is just lost because it is using this broken PATH variable, which you have saved in ~/.bash_profile. So, when you reload (source) your configuration, bash is simply re-reading from the same broken PATH.
To fix it, you must either edit the configuration or replace the file.
In the meantime, you can restore (what is likely) your default PATH temporarily, for the current shell session, from the command-line: PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:"
Otherwise, you must include the full path to each command you enter (as commented above) since bash no longer knows which directories to look in for these programs (commands).
Try /usr/bin/vim ~/.bash_profile to open the file for editing.
If you'd like to instead remove the file, try: /bin/rm ~/.bash_profile But don't forget to replace it!
Once you've successfully, edited or replaced the file, you need to source it for it to be loaded with each new instance of bash: . ~/.bash_profile.
Also, it is better to place your configuration in the ~/.bashrc file, though this would not have prevented the same situation from happening.
So I'm installing some things for coding and personal usage, and I need to run this in the terminal (I'm on Mac if you didn't read the title).
~/.bash_profile
It just says permission denied, Im running OSX 10.8.4 Mountain Lion. How do I bypass this?
On MacOS: add source ~/.bash_profile to the end of ~/.zshrc.
Then this profile will be in effect when you open zsh.
You would never want to run that, but you may want to source it.
. ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
both should work. But this is an odd request, because that file should be sourced automatically when you start bash, unless you're explicitly starting it non-interactively. From the man page:
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.
If you change .bash_profile, it only applies to new Terminal sessions.
To apply it to an existing session, run source ~/.bash_profile. You can run any Bash script this way - think of executing source as the same as typing commands in the Terminal window (from the specified script).
More info: How to reload .bash_profile from the command line?
Bonus: You can make environment variables available to OSX applications - not just the current Bash session but apps like Visual Studio Code or IntelliJ - using launchctl setenv GOPATH "${GOPATH:-}"
As #kojiro said, you don't want to "run" this file. Source it as he says. It should get "sourced" at startup. Sourcing just means running every line in the file, including the one you want to get run. If you want to make sure a folder is in a certain path environment variable (as it seems you want from one of your comments on another solution), execute
$ echo $PATH
At the command line. If you want to check that your ~/.bash_profile is being sourced, either at startup as it should be, or when you source it manually, enter the following line into your ~/.bash_profile file:
$ echo "Hello I'm running stuff in the ~/.bash_profile!"
No need to start, it would automatically executed while you startup your mac terminal / bash. Whenever you do a change, you may need to restart the terminal.
~ is the default path for .bash_profile
I was getting this error on zsh(mac os Big Sur 11.3), This is how i solved this :-
Go to Terminal.
cd /users/<yourusername>
Once you reach here issue a command :
ls -al
You will see a lot of files and one specific file .zprofile. This is your user profile. We need to edit this.
After this we need to edit the file. Issue the below command :
nano .zprofile
Once you issue this command file will be opened for edit. Add the path details for maven.
M2_PATH="/Users//code/apache-maven-3.8.1/bin" //add your path of maven diretory
PATH="${PATH}:${M2_PATH}"
export PATH
press ctrl + X and save the file.
Issue command after saving the file :
source .zprofile
Once done, you will be able to run the mvn command.
If the problem is that you are not seeing your changes to the file take effect, just open a new terminal window, and it will be "sourced". You will be able to use the proper PATH etc with each subsequent terminal window.
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Whenever I start a new Terminal session, the window opens up with a command:
'-bash: cd: /Users/yourusername/Library/lejos_nxj: No such file or directory'.
I want to remove that line from coming up on the prompt, so I deleted the Terminal plist file and sent hard resets, but nothing has worked for me so far.
Is there anything I haven't tried yet?
You've probably got something in your ~/.profile, which is automatically executed when you open a Terminal.
If you did not set anything in there, do
rm ~/.profile
in a Terminal and this should disappear.
If you think that something important may be in there, do
open -a TextEdit ~/.profile
(or change TextEdit to your preferred editor) to view and edit the file.
That line is probably in either your ~/.bashrc file or your ~/.profile file. I would check those two files first (and they are both hidden because of the period initial character).
Edit: I just checked my OS X system, and I don't have ~/.bashrc (but you may).
You could try a terminal replacement (Just recently read about this one, iTerm2) it might
resolve your problem by using its own default startup settings.
If it is anything like Linux the ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile are used when you open your terminal.
It seems that most people assume it is in some init file but its not clear which are included. Once your shell does come up (ignore errors) -try this:
script
bash -l -x
exit
exit
Now you should have a file called typescript which will have debug info showing most if not all of what the shell has executed when coming up in login mode. You could for instance do grep source typescript to see which files were involved OR you could find refrences to nxj etc.
p.s. I assume your clearing of the plist would clear the preferences, but wouldn't hurt to see if the relevant command is in 'Terminal-> Presences->Settings->Shell->Run Command' for any of the terminal window presets
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