“Command not found” when attempting to cd in Terminal

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I am getting errors trying to set up web starter kit via Terminal. I get an error trying to install the kit:
$ cd web-starter-kit $ npm install returns -bash: $: command not found.

How do I get this to work?

Davids-iMac-3:~ david$ git clone https://github.com/google/web-starter-kit.git
Cloning into 'web-starter-kit'...
remote: Counting objects: 4397, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (102/102), done.
remote: Total 4397 (delta 12), reused 81 (delta 3)
Receiving objects: 100% (4397/4397), 7.15 MiB | 196.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1572/1572), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Davids-iMac-3:~ david$ $ cd web-starter-kit/app
-bash: $: command not found
Davids-iMac-3:~ david$ $ cd web-starter-kit $ npm install
-bash: $: command not found
Davids-iMac-3:~ david$

Best Answer

The first $ in the command should not be typed. It represents the unix prompt.

So, instead of

$ cd web-starter-kit/app

you should use

cd web-starter-kit/app

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Modify the file .bash_profile with nano or another appropriate editor:

Replace:

export PATH=’/usr/local/bin:?? 
# Setting PATH for Python 2.7
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

by:

# Setting PATH for Python 2.7
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:$PATH

Explanation:

The first line of your current .bash_profile

export PATH=’/usr/local/bin:??

modifies the standard value of $PATH given by /etc/paths from

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

to ’/usr/local/bin:?? - which is no valid path.

The fourth and fifth line of your current .bash_profile modifies $PATH to

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:’/usr/local/bin:??

Since ’/usr/local/bin:? is no valid path the finally effective PATH is

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin

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To analyze problems like that it helps to

check whether the target of the symlink exists (ls -l ~/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert)
check whether the target is executable
verify whether the shell sees the file in question (type ebook-convert)

Doing so made me realize that Calibre was installed in /Applications instead of ~/Applications.

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