My terminal is not recognizing the majority of commands. It won't recognize ls, ruby, python, brew, and a few others. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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What does the prompt look like? What is your $PATH? The more information you can provide, the easier it is for others to help you troubleshoot. Best wishes!– zpletanJan 7, 2016 at 8:15
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My $PATH is ’/usr/local/bin:??– user164594Jan 8, 2016 at 21:34
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This sounds like an issue with your PATH, run
/usr/bin/echo $PATH
My guess is that is going to be missing the required directories
export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
Then try again
The PATH variable is the list of directories that will be searched when executed by the shell; this variable will not persist between bash sessions - and should be set in your ~/.bashrc file.
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin" >> ~/.bashrc
In your shell, bash, the .bashrc file will automatically be sources on terminal creation.
