Command line in OSX breaks when I edit bash_profile

Question

Please help me, I am learning how to add sublime to command line from this link and when I created .bash_profile file, in the first line I typed export PATH= and saved it.

My command line is broken. I can't do anything with command (for example, I can't use ls, nano, mkdir, rm, etc.) and when I press Tab to view all commands, I see

I tried echo $PATH but it returns " " (empty or null). Please suggest me how to solve this problem.

Thank you and sorry for my English.

Answer 1

export PATH=

will set you PATH variable to blank and not enable the shell to find any commands. You should delete this line from your .bash_profile and your problem will be fixed.

I just checked the link referenced in your post and I think this is the line your having a problem with:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:(...)

I think the author of the blog really meant to write this:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

This will work correctly. Try adding that line to your .bash_profile. It will simply ensure that commands contained in /usr/local/bin are found first when the shell searches for them (which it does when you type 'rm' for example)