Terminal > "-bash: command not found" for almost anything!! Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Sounds like the path variable may have gotten befuddled. Try running the following,

I get the following, but yours won't be exactly the same.

macmania82 said:

Code:

/bin/echo $PATH

give the line below:

Code:

/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/opt/subversion/bin/:PATH

so what does it mean? :/

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Your PATH is messed up, particularly the end of it. Were you modifying /etc/bashrc or .bashrc in your home directory?

You want to modify the PATH line above so the final word is $PATH, not just PATH.

In addition to the above, the change could have been made in a .profile folder in your home directory. This file and those mentioned by belvdr are hidden files so you will not see them in Finder unless you have hidden files shown. You may not have edited these files, some programs will edit them too, but if that's the case then they have a typo to fix.

To open these hidden files from Terminal,
I believe that's the full path to the pico editor. Not at my Mac to be certain. Alternatively,
will open the file in TextEdit. Just make sure TextEdit edits it as plain text instead of rich text. As a last alternative, use TextWrangler, which has a open hidden option to get to these files.

Problem Solved

Copy and pasted this "export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin" into terminal and it fixed my problem!!! )

Featnerlouise said:

Copy and pasted this "export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin" into terminal and it fixed my problem!!! )

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Until you close that Terminal window or even a new one you open will have the same problem. You need to find out as was advised in this necro post you revived what screwed up the path to begin with.