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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! – zpletan Jan 7 '16 at 8:15
  • My $PATH is ’/usr/local/bin:?? – user164594 Jan 8 '16 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.

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