Terminal not recognising commands

bash

I have tried to add TextWrangler to the path environment modifying the file .bash_profile. This is what I have added:

# Just a comment 
PATH=/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/MacOS
export PATH

I am not sure if it was exactly like this, but I am sure it was not so different. I must admit I do not know exactly what I was doing with the commands above, but by suggestions of other people and content on the web, I decided to add it to the .bash_profile file.

Now, when I type for example ls or open or nano it does not work. I have seen on the web that this has already happened to other people.

I am not able to open the .bash_profile file with TextWrangler to restore it as it was, so this is a big problem, I might say.

Best Answer

Perhaps you can modify the .bash_profile with textedit or textmate? You can download textmate from http://www.macromates.com/download. I like it a lot better than TextWrangler.

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$PATH should contain these folders: /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin.

Try editing ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, or ~/.bash_login (with for example /usr/bin/open ~/.bash_profile -a TextEdit) and commenting out any lines that modify the path.

If that works, you can add a line like export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH to ~/.bash_profile.

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The path /myusername/Applications/gradle-2.6/bin probably doesn't exist except your personal user folder is in the root of your main volume - which would be very, very uncommon on a *nix system.

Depending on where you've installed Gradle the proper path might be:

/Users/myUsername/Applications/gradle-2.6/bin or
/Applications/gradle-2.6/bin

So change the export line to

export PATH=/Users/myUsername/Applications/gradle-2.6/bin:$PATH or  
export PATH=/Applications/gradle-2.6/bin:$PATH

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