-bash: dirname: command not found

I am finding the below line every time I open my terminal

-bash: dirname: command not found.

My current path is /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/Users/jiayi/opt/anaconda3/bin:/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:.

How can I resolve this problem? I already tried export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" in order to change the path to default, but every time I open a new terminal, the path would go back to the messy one.

MacBook

Posted on May 18, 2020 11:07 PM

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May 20, 2020 11:41 PM in response to jiayi19

Check your "~/.bash_profile" file to see if the PATH environmental variable is being modified.

Using the "export" command in the Terminal window only affects child processes and does not affect any other Terminal windows you may open.

See these articles for some more information:

https://scriptingosx.com/2017/04/about-bash_profile-and-bashrc-on-macos/

https://scriptingosx.com/2017/04/on-bash-environment-variables/

BobHarris

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May 19, 2020 8:58 AM in response to jiayi19

dirname is suppose to be in

/usr/bin/dirname

Your path does have /usr/bin as part of PATH, so it should be found.

See if you can find dirname via the ls command:

/bin/ls -leO@ /usr/bin/dirname
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  restricted,compressed 18128 May  4  2019 /usr/bin/dirname

I am on a Mojave system, and what is shown is from my system

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