All commands that I try to run in the command line return an error such as:
-bash: open: command not found
I have tried to find a solution online but I cant find anything helpful. I found this while trying to download and install Git but the commands wouldn't run. I am not very experienced with macos and commands for it.
Mac mini, macOS 10.15
Sorry, I keep forgetting you have not PATH
/usr/bin/printenv PATH
I am guessing this is this line in your .bash_profile
/Users/<username>/.bash_profile:export PATH=’/usr/local/bin:??
that is causing you problems.
/usr/bin/nano $HOME/.bash_profile
Unless you have another preferred text editor, in which case use the full path to that editor
/usr/bin/which vim
/usr/bin/which emac
as examples to find the full path to other editors
After you have corrected your .bash_profile, /usr/bin/which Quit your Terminal session, start a new Terminal session, and see if you have a working PATH now.
Sorry, I keep forgetting you have not PATH
/usr/bin/printenv PATH
I am guessing this is this line in your .bash_profile
/Users/<username>/.bash_profile:export PATH=’/usr/local/bin:??
that is causing you problems.
/usr/bin/nano $HOME/.bash_profile
Unless you have another preferred text editor, in which case use the full path to that editor
/usr/bin/which vim
/usr/bin/which emac
as examples to find the full path to other editors
After you have corrected your .bash_profile, /usr/bin/which Quit your Terminal session, start a new Terminal session, and see if you have a working PATH now.
Your PATH environment variable is screwed up.
It should look like
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
but yours is apparently broken. Use
printenv PATH
to see what your PATH is actually set to. It is allowed to be different from the default, but it should still include the default set of directories.
You can access commands by specifying their full path.
/usr/bin/grep 'PATH=' $HOME/.[a-z]*
should find all the shell initialization files that set PATH
When you find the offending shell initialization file
/usr/bin/nano .name-of-offending-file
and fix it.
And the next command(/usr/bin/grep 'PATH=' $HOME/.[a-z]*) returned:
/Users/<username>/.bash_history:echo export PATH=’/usr/local/bin:$PATH’ >> ~/.bash_profile
/Users/<username>/.bash_history:export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
/Users/<username>/.bash_history:/usr/bin/grep 'PATH=' $HOME/.[a-z]*
/Users/<username>/.bash_profile:PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin:${PATH}"
/Users/<username>/.bash_profile:export PATH=’/usr/local/bin:??
grep: /Users/<username>/.bash_sessions: Is a directory
grep: /Users/<username>/.cache: Is a directory
grep: /Users/<username>/.config: Is a directory
grep: /Users/<username>/.cups: Is a directory
grep: /Users/<username>/.idlerc: Is a directory
grep: /Users/<username>/.oracle_jre_usage: Is a directory
grep: /Users/<username>/.vscode: Is a directory
I don't know the offending file or what the PATH is supposed to be
Thanks,
The printenv PATH command returned:
-bash: printenv: command not found
Thanks so much, this worked and saved me a lot of stress
"command not found" error for most terminal commands