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I am faced with a problem, that I can't run even a single command on my Mac OS X Lion terminal, even "ls" command, when i print $PATH variable, found
My-Mac:/ Mac$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/git/bin
Please help me if you have guys have any solution for that.
Shahrukh A.
Posted 2012-01-03T18:20:58.620
Reputation: 133
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Start with export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin to get your commands back.
If you open up a new terminal, does it start with PATH as /usr/local/git/bin? If so, it sounds like your git installation screwed up your paths in /etc/paths, or your /etc/profile
Mine has (/etc/paths):
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
And /etc/profile should contain the following somewhere:
if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
fi
Do these files contain similar lines on your system? If not, we'll need to see what they do contain and then properly merge them with what should be in there. If they check out, we'll look into your /etc/bashrc or local profile configurations.
Darth Android
Posted 2012-01-03T18:20:58.620
Reputation: 35 133
got the solution, :) there is a .bash_profile file in my home dir, which executed when i open up the terminal , i deleted that file, its containing that git path only – Shahrukh A. – 2012-01-03T18:52:12.140
Awesome! Your git applications might not work now, so you might consider adding
/usr/local/git/binto the bottom of/etc/pathson it's own line if you haven't already. – Darth Android – 2012-01-03T18:56:03.163