Help, messed up my .bash_profile and ls command is not working

[phil1995]

I was recently trying to install the google androikd SDK and have somehow managed to mess up my .bash_profile and my commands such as ls are not working from the terminal prompt. It is giving me a command not found.

If I type "echo $PATH" from the terminal prompt, I simply get an entry for the android SDK

"{PATH}:/Users/phil/android-sdk-mac_x86-1.5_r2/tools"

Can someone tell me how to add the /bin path back in so that them "ls" and other commands begin to work again?

Thanks in advance.

 

[angelwatt]

You'll need to type full path names for executables. Use the following to get back into your bash profile to make edits.

/usr/bin/pico .bash_profile

I've been in a similar situation before.

 

[phil1995]

I can not get the /usr/bin/pico .bash_profile to work.

If I do a /usr/bin/ls, I can see the list of files. If I do a ls in the /bin directory, I do not see the pico file.

 

[retroneo]

echo $PATH
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin

but only the Python path is in my .bash_profile

 

[phil1995]

How can I get into edit it, PICO does not seem to work.

 

[phil1995]

The bin directory contains the following files, but no PICO or OPEN:

bash,cat,chmod,cp,csh,date,dd,df,domainname,echo,ed,expr,hostname,
kill,ksh,launchctl,link,ln,ls,mkdir,mv,pax,ps,pwd,rcp,rm,rmdir,sh,sleep,stty,
,sync,tcsh,test,unlink,wit4path,zsh,zhs-4.3.4

 

[phil1995]

For anyone else with this issue, I found a post on the macosx.com tech support site. Apparently, the /bin/mv .bash_profile bash_profile resets the file to original state. Hope this helps someone else.

Thanks for your help guys.

try this /bin/mv .bash_profile bash_profile

It seems your $PATH went screwy when you did some "export" on the .bash_profile. effectively the /bin/mv .bash_profile bash_profile is the same as mv .bash_profile bash_profile

 

[angelwatt]

The bin directory contains the following files, but no PICO or OPEN:

bash,cat,chmod,cp,csh,date,dd,df,domainname,echo,ed,expr,hostname,
kill,ksh,launchctl,link,ln,ls,mkdir,mv,pax,ps,pwd,rcp,rm,rmdir,sh,sleep,stty,
,sync,tcsh,test,unlink,wit4path,zsh,zhs-4.3.4

That's the contents of /bin, not /usr/bin. That's why it wasn't working for you.