Virtually no commands in terminal are working. For example, wget, shell, etc..none of them work. Do I need to install or change a path or something? Could someone tell me what I need to do step by step and exactly what I need to time in terminal in order to finally get commands to work? I'm trying to do this all on my local machine.
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FWIW, wget is not installed by default on any Mac OS X versions.
And I know of no command named "shell", though I know of multiple shells.
If you're saying the problem is that you can't open a shell in a Terminal window, then it's quite possibly a botched shell profile file. To find out, you'll need to tell us what shell you're using (is it the default bash or something else?).
You could also create a new user account in System Preferences (the Account pane before Lion, the User and Groups pane in Lion) and try Terminal there. If that works, post again and we can give commands to help discover and/or change the shell profile in the malfunctioning account.
And please identify what OS version you're using.
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echo "$PATH"FWIW, wget is not installed by default on any Mac OS X versions.
And I know of no command named "shell", though I know of multiple shells.
If you're saying the problem is that you can't open a shell in a Terminal window, then it's quite possibly a botched shell profile file. To find out, you'll need to tell us what shell you're using (is it the default bash or something else?).
You could also create a new user account in System Preferences (the Account pane before Lion, the User and Groups pane in Lion) and try Terminal there. If that works, post again and we can give commands to help discover and/or change the shell profile in the malfunctioning account.
And please identify what OS version you're using.
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I'd highly recommend using Homebrew instead of MacPorts. It is extremely active and has numerous packages available with more coming along daily.
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew