latex, bibtex "command not found" in Snow Leopard

I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard, and I have MacTex installed (and reinstalled since the OS upgrade). In iTerm (or any other terminal), my computer no longer recognizes bibtex or pdflatex commands. If I type, say, bibtex filename.aux (in the directory containing filename.aux), it returns "-bash: bibtex: command not found").

I have tried typing the whole path for bibtex, the file I want to process, or both (e.g., usr/texbin/bibtex ~/Documents/writing/filename.aux), but it still doesn't work. Even if I'm in usr/texbin, where bibtex is, it won't recognize bibtex as a command.

I added a file in etc/paths.d that consists of usr/texbin, and when I type echo $PATH, usr/texbin appears, so that's not the problem, I don't think.

Any advice that anyone can give to get bibtex working by command line (since I don't know of any other way to use it) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Sep 30, 2009 8:32 PM

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Sep 30, 2009 8:48 PM in response to noahpoah

you might get better help with this if you ask in the Mactex forum rather than here. it certainly sounds like your Mactex install is messed up and I would reinstall it from scratch. uninstall the current distro first.
http://www.tug.org/mactex/uninstalling.html
BTW, when you do get it working, FYI, you can invoke bibtex from GUI interface in TexShop. just go to Typeset menu->bibtex. I never do it from command line personally.

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