Terminal issues

What commands are you using? It's hard to say without more information.

 

You will likely need to add a few things to your PATH variable :
./
/bin
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/local/bin

This is were 99% of the unix commands and applications reside. NOTE: this is just a list, use a command like this

set PATH=./:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin/:$PATH$
or
export PATH=./:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin/:$PATH$

To see your current PATH variable, use

echo $PATH$

 

Just a guess, but your .bashrc or .profile got the android stuff put into it. You could try editing those files to see how your path gets set. Plus you could put the export line you typed into the appropriate file so your path is always set properly.

BTW, that looks like a decent path, at least to start from. If it were me, I'd make sure that you had that export line in your .bashrc file. You can add to it as necessary.

If you're having trouble, post the contents of your .bashrc and .profile files along with the errors you're getting.

 

try

/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES

likely you messed up your shell settings doing something you did not understand

edit: I have no idea what that command does, so proceed with caution!

 

Appears your /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc are missing. Pasting the contents of both files below. Hope it helps. (both files are root owned and permissions 444)

Contents of /etc/bashrc

Code:

# System-wide .bashrc file for interactive bash(1) shells.
if [ -z "$PS1" ]; then
   return
fi

PS1='\h:\W \u\$ '
# Make bash check its window size after a process completes
shopt -s checkwinsize
# Tell the terminal about the working directory at each prompt.
if [ "$TERM_PROGRAM" == "Apple_Terminal" ] && [ -z "$INSIDE_EMACS" ]; then
    update_terminal_cwd() {
        # Identify the directory using a "file:" scheme URL,
        # including the host name to disambiguate local vs.
        # remote connections. Percent-escape spaces.
	local SEARCH=' '
	local REPLACE='%20'
	local PWD_URL="file://$HOSTNAME${PWD//$SEARCH/$REPLACE}"
	printf '\e]7;%s\a' "$PWD_URL"
    }
    PROMPT_COMMAND="update_terminal_cwd; $PROMPT_COMMAND"
fi

Contents of /etc/profile

Code:

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
	eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
fi

if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then
	[ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc
fi

Hopefully you have the /usr/libexec/path_helper file. If not, let me know and I will upload or email it.

 

I am having the EXACT same problem, with Android SDK as well. My phone is semi-bricked, I figured to fix that using ADB connection and failed, making the terminal to just not work at all. I am currently reading everywhere about this problem and still don't have any clue on how to fix it...

 

Create another user account, enable fast user switching. Switch to other user account. Open Terminal and try any command for example ls. If it works copy .bashrc and/or .profile from the working user account to the home folder of the one that's not working. Change ownership of the files! Those files are hidden by default so you can use this applescript to make them visible in Finder.

Code:

display dialog "Show or hide files in Finder?" buttons {"Cancel", "hideFiles", "showFiles"} default button 3
if the button returned of the result is "showFiles" then
	-- action for 1st button goes here
	do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall Finder"
else
	-- action for 2nd button goes here
	do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO; killall Finder"
end if

To change ownership of the files you can use a full path to the command your trying like :

Code:

/usr/sbin/chown

Note : In case the the do shell script line doesn't work because of the messed up PATH you can use :

Code:

do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall Finder"

 

It was actually a problem of the PATH. Something messed it up, now I fixed it... If someone has the same problem you can check the PATH following the command

Code:

echo $PATH