Why am I getting "-bash: ‘alias: command not found" at the top of my Terminal when I launch it?

I think your bash config file has had aliases added that are no longer defined anywhere.

a bash file is a set of commands the system uses to complete a task.

bash alias is how the system locates commands. The system normally has a set of commands already on file so all you need to do is type the command and the system will look in its file base to find the command. The error could be a missing file in terminal, the path to the normal locations was edited.

In terminal to start a command you would have to either be in the folder with the command or type out the address to the command like typing in a web address.

Im also having this problem in terminal along with a huge number of other problems.

I dont know what you were trying to do?

Run "cat ~/.bash_profile" and paste what you see here.

That's what I would do, but etresoft is more the Unix pro than I.

Remove the single quotes, and you only need the first line.

yangwang wrote:

haoyang-wangs-macbook-pro:~ haoyangwang$ cat ~/.bash_profile

‘alias wget=”curl -O”‘

‘alias wget=”curl -O”‘

‘alias wget=”curl -O”‘

haoyang-wangs-macbook-pro:~ haoyangwang$

This is the result of running "cat ~/.bash_profile", and @Kappy ah that makes a lot of sense. Sorry for being a unix noob. So I guess a solution would be to delete such alias calls, right? How would I go about doing that? And thanks for the quick replies everyone, this is super helpful.

If you want wget, download and install the real thing: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

Then just delete your .bash_profile file.

Sitesucker is a nice, easy-to-use GUI tool that works great too.