Think i messed up my Pathway?

[Irishmantis]

Hello everyone!

First time member, long time viewer.

The problem that im having right now is that i cant run "-bash" or "-vm" paths in Terminal.

So im running Java in Eclipse (Programming) the last few days, just started, wanted to get into it.
everything is going fine i make a few mistakes get a few errors, delete them bla bla, so i decided to restart my computer,
All of a Sudden java wont launch, it just bounces in the Dock bar then disappears without any message.
so i did the usual, deleted Eclipse and Java then reinstalled both of them, and as you imagined that didn't help.
Opened up terminal to check the path and it saids "-vm is not a command" or something like that,
then i tried "-bash" and get the same thing, from i researched, i found similar problems with Snow Leopard with people.
So far as i seen on this site everyone who had the same problem got it sorted, and being that this is a very individual problem, every answer is different.

I think the problem is caused either by when i was deleting stuff in eclipse i could of deleted something important,
or i also just installed wine, and it was after i closed Wine this happened plus a similar problem a user had like this was also connected to him installing wine

TL;DR eclipse wont launch, and both "-VM and -bash" are no longer commands (-VM is the pathway for Eclipse) So anybody got any ideas?
this is on Snow Leopard

When i "echo $PATH" i get this,

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin

Thanks in advance

 

[ScoobyMcDoo]

I will try to help, but you you will have to try to be more clear in your problem statement. State exactly what you are doing, what you expected to happen and what actually happened.

 

[Irishmantis]

I will try to help, but you you will have to try to be more clear in your problem statement. State exactly what you are doing, what you expected to happen and what actually happened.

Thanks for your reply

I am trying to run Eclipse, and i expect it to launch but it just bounced in the Dock bar then closes

hers the error when i try run from Terminal

/Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse ; exit; Luke:~
lukekearns$ /Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse ; exit;
Bus error logout

[Process completed]

Funny thing i just figured out, is that it will run from my Download folder, but when i copy Eclipse to my Applications it wont run.

why is that?

edit: it only works when i copy my whole Eclipse Folder to applications which is weird since i don't have to do that with other apps, its like its having trouble find its Contents