How can I fix my terminal when editing the PATH in .bash_profile has the startup hang and I get no prompt?
I am new to the command line and clearly messed up my setup.
- macOS High Sierra(10.13.6)
- Trying to set up Python and VScode.
My path variable is what I believe is wrong, but Idon't know exactly how to get a shell and fix things.
It is now showing the user name when i go into terminal. After trying everything i tried to follow. https://shellzero.wordpress.com/tag/reset-path-on-mac/
My Terminal now looks like this
My bash profile currently looks like this when i enter open .bash_profile
in new command on terminal
according to the suggestion of the article mentioned above, after entering export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin
and save the text file by command+S
I tried to execute source ~/.bash_profile
in new command in terminal and the result was
After that i also run the command echo $PATH.
and the result was this :
I have no idea what i did. And what i need to do to fix the problem. Any help will be truly appreciated.
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I am new to the command line and clearly messed up my setup.
- macOS High Sierra(10.13.6)
- Trying to set up Python and VScode.
My path variable is what I believe is wrong, but Idon't know exactly how to get a shell and fix things.
It is now showing the user name when i go into terminal. After trying everything i tried to follow. https://shellzero.wordpress.com/tag/reset-path-on-mac/
My Terminal now looks like this
My bash profile currently looks like this when i enter open .bash_profile
in new command on terminal
according to the suggestion of the article mentioned above, after entering export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin
and save the text file by command+S
I tried to execute source ~/.bash_profile
in new command in terminal and the result was
After that i also run the command echo $PATH.
and the result was this :
I have no idea what i did. And what i need to do to fix the problem. Any help will be truly appreciated.
macos terminal command-line bash path
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Do you have any shells still working? The quick fix would be to move / delete / rename the file you edited. It has a syntax error that's blocking the startup. If not, we'll see what the next steps are like make a new admin account should you have none and then get control again
– bmike♦
10 hours ago
add a comment |
I am new to the command line and clearly messed up my setup.
- macOS High Sierra(10.13.6)
- Trying to set up Python and VScode.
My path variable is what I believe is wrong, but Idon't know exactly how to get a shell and fix things.
It is now showing the user name when i go into terminal. After trying everything i tried to follow. https://shellzero.wordpress.com/tag/reset-path-on-mac/
My Terminal now looks like this
My bash profile currently looks like this when i enter open .bash_profile
in new command on terminal
according to the suggestion of the article mentioned above, after entering export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin
and save the text file by command+S
I tried to execute source ~/.bash_profile
in new command in terminal and the result was
After that i also run the command echo $PATH.
and the result was this :
I have no idea what i did. And what i need to do to fix the problem. Any help will be truly appreciated.
macos terminal command-line bash path
New contributor
I am new to the command line and clearly messed up my setup.
- macOS High Sierra(10.13.6)
- Trying to set up Python and VScode.
My path variable is what I believe is wrong, but Idon't know exactly how to get a shell and fix things.
It is now showing the user name when i go into terminal. After trying everything i tried to follow. https://shellzero.wordpress.com/tag/reset-path-on-mac/
My Terminal now looks like this
My bash profile currently looks like this when i enter open .bash_profile
in new command on terminal
according to the suggestion of the article mentioned above, after entering export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin
and save the text file by command+S
I tried to execute source ~/.bash_profile
in new command in terminal and the result was
After that i also run the command echo $PATH.
and the result was this :
I have no idea what i did. And what i need to do to fix the problem. Any help will be truly appreciated.
macos terminal command-line bash path
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Do you have any shells still working? The quick fix would be to move / delete / rename the file you edited. It has a syntax error that's blocking the startup. If not, we'll see what the next steps are like make a new admin account should you have none and then get control again
– bmike♦
10 hours ago
add a comment |
Do you have any shells still working? The quick fix would be to move / delete / rename the file you edited. It has a syntax error that's blocking the startup. If not, we'll see what the next steps are like make a new admin account should you have none and then get control again
– bmike♦
10 hours ago
Do you have any shells still working? The quick fix would be to move / delete / rename the file you edited. It has a syntax error that's blocking the startup. If not, we'll see what the next steps are like make a new admin account should you have none and then get control again
– bmike♦
10 hours ago
Do you have any shells still working? The quick fix would be to move / delete / rename the file you edited. It has a syntax error that's blocking the startup. If not, we'll see what the next steps are like make a new admin account should you have none and then get control again
– bmike♦
10 hours ago
add a comment |
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OK - no worries. You did in fact mess things up, but here's an easy way to fix things.
- Open TextEdit (or whatever editor you like graphically on the Mac)
- Open a file and go to your home folder (click or press Command Shift G and type ~ and return)
- Show hidden files (if needed) - Command + Shift + .
- Open .bash_profile
Delete everything or comment out anything that contains PATH= and save the file (you can save as to save it to your Desktop if you want to fix it up rather than start new).
Then open a new terminal window to check your work. If it works, close out the broken sessions and make sure you incorporate the old path when you add things:
This is safe:
export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:/path/to/whatever/bin"
It's safe since the old $PATH is included on the right of the =
What isn't safe is when
export PATH="whatever"
All the other parts of the path are now gone, with only whatever left and the last = wins, so your path is missing very important items instead of adding things to the default path, you broke it temporarily. No worries, this is a phase of passage - everyone needs to break their shell dot files to learn. Welcome to the club.
Thanks bmike.i will try to do that. My bash_profile has so so many stuff.IT will be tuff. BTW where should i put the new "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin" in bash_profile? In the begining or in the end?
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
my bash_profile is filled with so many code with PATH=".....' is it possible that i delete everything except the new line "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin""
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
1
It's also critical that you remove from thecat << EOF ...
line through theEOF
on a line by itself -- every time that runs, it adds another batch of garbled mess to the end of the .bash_profile itself. Frankly, I think it'll be easier to dump it, and start over (see my answer).
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
@bmike I cant really thank you enough!!
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
add a comment |
I'd recommend a somewhat different approach from @bmike: rather than trying to remove the bad parts from the current file, start over and add back just the good parts. It looks like there's a lot more bad than good in the current file, so this should be simpler.
What's really really really bad in the current file is the section that starts like this:
cat << EOF >> ~/.bash_profile
...and somewhere down below that there'll be EOF
alone on a line. The problem is that this isn't an instruction to set up your environment, it's instructions to add instructions to your ~/.bash_profile. In other words, every time your ~/.bash_profile runs, it adds another copy of the stuff between cat
and EOF
to the end of ~/.bash_profile, so the file gets longer and longer and longer... and has more and more copies of the messed up instructions.
At this point, your ~/.bash_profile will be huge, and mostly garbled nonsense.
So, I recommend starting over. Rename and save the current file, so you can refer back to it if necessary, then create a new blank .bash_profile in your home directory. I recommend BBEdit for this -- it has a free demo mode that'll do everything you need here, and (unlike most text editors) it won't do "helpful" things like converting plain ASCII quotes (like "
) to fancy unicode quotes (like “
and ”
) that mess up shell scripts. It also doesn't complain about saving files with names that start with ".".
From the section visible in your screenshot, this is the only part of the current file that looks right:
# Setting PATH for Python 3.7
# The original version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:${PATH}"
# Add Visual Studio Code (code)
export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin"
There might be something you actually want further down, but since the cat
part starts shortly after that I doubt it. In any case, this should be enough to get you a basically functional setup; if there are some things that still don't work, you may have to look through the old file for other things that need salvaging.
I Have billions of code in the bash_profile.So it vary hard for me to pick & Choose. Moreover i already uninstall and deleted python3,VScode. I was wondering if i delete everything on bash and just keep this one line code "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" in th bash_profile. is it posiible to fix the issue? i am in real urgency.so fixing this thing quick is a big deal. later i can reinstall all the programs which should be fine? Thanks a lot again.I really Really appreciate your help
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
Are you still using Visual Studio Code? If so, I'd keep just the last two lines of what I have above. If you're not using VS Code, just remove the .bash_profile entirely (but keep a backup, just in case).PATH
should be automatically set to a reasonable (but basic) value without the file. If you do need to set it for some reason,PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
is the original default, and I'd recommend using that.
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
I just deleted everything and just kept the line "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" now seems like the terminal running again. I Just got this back: [braeburn:~ [username]$ echo $PATH. /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin.]
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
That's pretty close to the standardPATH
, but it's missing/usr/local/bin
. I'd recommend either removing that line (leaving the defaultPATH
), or force the standard value withexport PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
BTW i removed my previous SQL path [export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"], If i want to add it again to my bash_profile (otherwise MYSQL dont run for some reason) what should be the safe code?
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
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OK - no worries. You did in fact mess things up, but here's an easy way to fix things.
- Open TextEdit (or whatever editor you like graphically on the Mac)
- Open a file and go to your home folder (click or press Command Shift G and type ~ and return)
- Show hidden files (if needed) - Command + Shift + .
- Open .bash_profile
Delete everything or comment out anything that contains PATH= and save the file (you can save as to save it to your Desktop if you want to fix it up rather than start new).
Then open a new terminal window to check your work. If it works, close out the broken sessions and make sure you incorporate the old path when you add things:
This is safe:
export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:/path/to/whatever/bin"
It's safe since the old $PATH is included on the right of the =
What isn't safe is when
export PATH="whatever"
All the other parts of the path are now gone, with only whatever left and the last = wins, so your path is missing very important items instead of adding things to the default path, you broke it temporarily. No worries, this is a phase of passage - everyone needs to break their shell dot files to learn. Welcome to the club.
Thanks bmike.i will try to do that. My bash_profile has so so many stuff.IT will be tuff. BTW where should i put the new "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin" in bash_profile? In the begining or in the end?
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
my bash_profile is filled with so many code with PATH=".....' is it possible that i delete everything except the new line "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin""
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
1
It's also critical that you remove from thecat << EOF ...
line through theEOF
on a line by itself -- every time that runs, it adds another batch of garbled mess to the end of the .bash_profile itself. Frankly, I think it'll be easier to dump it, and start over (see my answer).
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
@bmike I cant really thank you enough!!
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
add a comment |
OK - no worries. You did in fact mess things up, but here's an easy way to fix things.
- Open TextEdit (or whatever editor you like graphically on the Mac)
- Open a file and go to your home folder (click or press Command Shift G and type ~ and return)
- Show hidden files (if needed) - Command + Shift + .
- Open .bash_profile
Delete everything or comment out anything that contains PATH= and save the file (you can save as to save it to your Desktop if you want to fix it up rather than start new).
Then open a new terminal window to check your work. If it works, close out the broken sessions and make sure you incorporate the old path when you add things:
This is safe:
export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:/path/to/whatever/bin"
It's safe since the old $PATH is included on the right of the =
What isn't safe is when
export PATH="whatever"
All the other parts of the path are now gone, with only whatever left and the last = wins, so your path is missing very important items instead of adding things to the default path, you broke it temporarily. No worries, this is a phase of passage - everyone needs to break their shell dot files to learn. Welcome to the club.
Thanks bmike.i will try to do that. My bash_profile has so so many stuff.IT will be tuff. BTW where should i put the new "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin" in bash_profile? In the begining or in the end?
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
my bash_profile is filled with so many code with PATH=".....' is it possible that i delete everything except the new line "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin""
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
1
It's also critical that you remove from thecat << EOF ...
line through theEOF
on a line by itself -- every time that runs, it adds another batch of garbled mess to the end of the .bash_profile itself. Frankly, I think it'll be easier to dump it, and start over (see my answer).
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
@bmike I cant really thank you enough!!
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
add a comment |
OK - no worries. You did in fact mess things up, but here's an easy way to fix things.
- Open TextEdit (or whatever editor you like graphically on the Mac)
- Open a file and go to your home folder (click or press Command Shift G and type ~ and return)
- Show hidden files (if needed) - Command + Shift + .
- Open .bash_profile
Delete everything or comment out anything that contains PATH= and save the file (you can save as to save it to your Desktop if you want to fix it up rather than start new).
Then open a new terminal window to check your work. If it works, close out the broken sessions and make sure you incorporate the old path when you add things:
This is safe:
export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:/path/to/whatever/bin"
It's safe since the old $PATH is included on the right of the =
What isn't safe is when
export PATH="whatever"
All the other parts of the path are now gone, with only whatever left and the last = wins, so your path is missing very important items instead of adding things to the default path, you broke it temporarily. No worries, this is a phase of passage - everyone needs to break their shell dot files to learn. Welcome to the club.
OK - no worries. You did in fact mess things up, but here's an easy way to fix things.
- Open TextEdit (or whatever editor you like graphically on the Mac)
- Open a file and go to your home folder (click or press Command Shift G and type ~ and return)
- Show hidden files (if needed) - Command + Shift + .
- Open .bash_profile
Delete everything or comment out anything that contains PATH= and save the file (you can save as to save it to your Desktop if you want to fix it up rather than start new).
Then open a new terminal window to check your work. If it works, close out the broken sessions and make sure you incorporate the old path when you add things:
This is safe:
export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:/path/to/whatever/bin"
It's safe since the old $PATH is included on the right of the =
What isn't safe is when
export PATH="whatever"
All the other parts of the path are now gone, with only whatever left and the last = wins, so your path is missing very important items instead of adding things to the default path, you broke it temporarily. No worries, this is a phase of passage - everyone needs to break their shell dot files to learn. Welcome to the club.
edited 6 hours ago
answered 8 hours ago
bmike♦bmike
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Thanks bmike.i will try to do that. My bash_profile has so so many stuff.IT will be tuff. BTW where should i put the new "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin" in bash_profile? In the begining or in the end?
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
my bash_profile is filled with so many code with PATH=".....' is it possible that i delete everything except the new line "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin""
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
1
It's also critical that you remove from thecat << EOF ...
line through theEOF
on a line by itself -- every time that runs, it adds another batch of garbled mess to the end of the .bash_profile itself. Frankly, I think it'll be easier to dump it, and start over (see my answer).
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
@bmike I cant really thank you enough!!
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
add a comment |
Thanks bmike.i will try to do that. My bash_profile has so so many stuff.IT will be tuff. BTW where should i put the new "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin" in bash_profile? In the begining or in the end?
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
my bash_profile is filled with so many code with PATH=".....' is it possible that i delete everything except the new line "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin""
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
1
It's also critical that you remove from thecat << EOF ...
line through theEOF
on a line by itself -- every time that runs, it adds another batch of garbled mess to the end of the .bash_profile itself. Frankly, I think it'll be easier to dump it, and start over (see my answer).
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
@bmike I cant really thank you enough!!
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
Thanks bmike.i will try to do that. My bash_profile has so so many stuff.IT will be tuff. BTW where should i put the new "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin" in bash_profile? In the begining or in the end?
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
Thanks bmike.i will try to do that. My bash_profile has so so many stuff.IT will be tuff. BTW where should i put the new "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin" in bash_profile? In the begining or in the end?
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
my bash_profile is filled with so many code with PATH=".....' is it possible that i delete everything except the new line "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin""
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
my bash_profile is filled with so many code with PATH=".....' is it possible that i delete everything except the new line "export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin""
– Biswajyoti Roy
8 hours ago
1
1
It's also critical that you remove from the
cat << EOF ...
line through the EOF
on a line by itself -- every time that runs, it adds another batch of garbled mess to the end of the .bash_profile itself. Frankly, I think it'll be easier to dump it, and start over (see my answer).– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
It's also critical that you remove from the
cat << EOF ...
line through the EOF
on a line by itself -- every time that runs, it adds another batch of garbled mess to the end of the .bash_profile itself. Frankly, I think it'll be easier to dump it, and start over (see my answer).– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
@bmike I cant really thank you enough!!
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
@bmike I cant really thank you enough!!
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
add a comment |
I'd recommend a somewhat different approach from @bmike: rather than trying to remove the bad parts from the current file, start over and add back just the good parts. It looks like there's a lot more bad than good in the current file, so this should be simpler.
What's really really really bad in the current file is the section that starts like this:
cat << EOF >> ~/.bash_profile
...and somewhere down below that there'll be EOF
alone on a line. The problem is that this isn't an instruction to set up your environment, it's instructions to add instructions to your ~/.bash_profile. In other words, every time your ~/.bash_profile runs, it adds another copy of the stuff between cat
and EOF
to the end of ~/.bash_profile, so the file gets longer and longer and longer... and has more and more copies of the messed up instructions.
At this point, your ~/.bash_profile will be huge, and mostly garbled nonsense.
So, I recommend starting over. Rename and save the current file, so you can refer back to it if necessary, then create a new blank .bash_profile in your home directory. I recommend BBEdit for this -- it has a free demo mode that'll do everything you need here, and (unlike most text editors) it won't do "helpful" things like converting plain ASCII quotes (like "
) to fancy unicode quotes (like “
and ”
) that mess up shell scripts. It also doesn't complain about saving files with names that start with ".".
From the section visible in your screenshot, this is the only part of the current file that looks right:
# Setting PATH for Python 3.7
# The original version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:${PATH}"
# Add Visual Studio Code (code)
export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin"
There might be something you actually want further down, but since the cat
part starts shortly after that I doubt it. In any case, this should be enough to get you a basically functional setup; if there are some things that still don't work, you may have to look through the old file for other things that need salvaging.
I Have billions of code in the bash_profile.So it vary hard for me to pick & Choose. Moreover i already uninstall and deleted python3,VScode. I was wondering if i delete everything on bash and just keep this one line code "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" in th bash_profile. is it posiible to fix the issue? i am in real urgency.so fixing this thing quick is a big deal. later i can reinstall all the programs which should be fine? Thanks a lot again.I really Really appreciate your help
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
Are you still using Visual Studio Code? If so, I'd keep just the last two lines of what I have above. If you're not using VS Code, just remove the .bash_profile entirely (but keep a backup, just in case).PATH
should be automatically set to a reasonable (but basic) value without the file. If you do need to set it for some reason,PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
is the original default, and I'd recommend using that.
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
I just deleted everything and just kept the line "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" now seems like the terminal running again. I Just got this back: [braeburn:~ [username]$ echo $PATH. /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin.]
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
That's pretty close to the standardPATH
, but it's missing/usr/local/bin
. I'd recommend either removing that line (leaving the defaultPATH
), or force the standard value withexport PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
BTW i removed my previous SQL path [export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"], If i want to add it again to my bash_profile (otherwise MYSQL dont run for some reason) what should be the safe code?
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
|
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I'd recommend a somewhat different approach from @bmike: rather than trying to remove the bad parts from the current file, start over and add back just the good parts. It looks like there's a lot more bad than good in the current file, so this should be simpler.
What's really really really bad in the current file is the section that starts like this:
cat << EOF >> ~/.bash_profile
...and somewhere down below that there'll be EOF
alone on a line. The problem is that this isn't an instruction to set up your environment, it's instructions to add instructions to your ~/.bash_profile. In other words, every time your ~/.bash_profile runs, it adds another copy of the stuff between cat
and EOF
to the end of ~/.bash_profile, so the file gets longer and longer and longer... and has more and more copies of the messed up instructions.
At this point, your ~/.bash_profile will be huge, and mostly garbled nonsense.
So, I recommend starting over. Rename and save the current file, so you can refer back to it if necessary, then create a new blank .bash_profile in your home directory. I recommend BBEdit for this -- it has a free demo mode that'll do everything you need here, and (unlike most text editors) it won't do "helpful" things like converting plain ASCII quotes (like "
) to fancy unicode quotes (like “
and ”
) that mess up shell scripts. It also doesn't complain about saving files with names that start with ".".
From the section visible in your screenshot, this is the only part of the current file that looks right:
# Setting PATH for Python 3.7
# The original version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:${PATH}"
# Add Visual Studio Code (code)
export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin"
There might be something you actually want further down, but since the cat
part starts shortly after that I doubt it. In any case, this should be enough to get you a basically functional setup; if there are some things that still don't work, you may have to look through the old file for other things that need salvaging.
I Have billions of code in the bash_profile.So it vary hard for me to pick & Choose. Moreover i already uninstall and deleted python3,VScode. I was wondering if i delete everything on bash and just keep this one line code "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" in th bash_profile. is it posiible to fix the issue? i am in real urgency.so fixing this thing quick is a big deal. later i can reinstall all the programs which should be fine? Thanks a lot again.I really Really appreciate your help
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
Are you still using Visual Studio Code? If so, I'd keep just the last two lines of what I have above. If you're not using VS Code, just remove the .bash_profile entirely (but keep a backup, just in case).PATH
should be automatically set to a reasonable (but basic) value without the file. If you do need to set it for some reason,PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
is the original default, and I'd recommend using that.
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
I just deleted everything and just kept the line "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" now seems like the terminal running again. I Just got this back: [braeburn:~ [username]$ echo $PATH. /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin.]
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
That's pretty close to the standardPATH
, but it's missing/usr/local/bin
. I'd recommend either removing that line (leaving the defaultPATH
), or force the standard value withexport PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
BTW i removed my previous SQL path [export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"], If i want to add it again to my bash_profile (otherwise MYSQL dont run for some reason) what should be the safe code?
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
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I'd recommend a somewhat different approach from @bmike: rather than trying to remove the bad parts from the current file, start over and add back just the good parts. It looks like there's a lot more bad than good in the current file, so this should be simpler.
What's really really really bad in the current file is the section that starts like this:
cat << EOF >> ~/.bash_profile
...and somewhere down below that there'll be EOF
alone on a line. The problem is that this isn't an instruction to set up your environment, it's instructions to add instructions to your ~/.bash_profile. In other words, every time your ~/.bash_profile runs, it adds another copy of the stuff between cat
and EOF
to the end of ~/.bash_profile, so the file gets longer and longer and longer... and has more and more copies of the messed up instructions.
At this point, your ~/.bash_profile will be huge, and mostly garbled nonsense.
So, I recommend starting over. Rename and save the current file, so you can refer back to it if necessary, then create a new blank .bash_profile in your home directory. I recommend BBEdit for this -- it has a free demo mode that'll do everything you need here, and (unlike most text editors) it won't do "helpful" things like converting plain ASCII quotes (like "
) to fancy unicode quotes (like “
and ”
) that mess up shell scripts. It also doesn't complain about saving files with names that start with ".".
From the section visible in your screenshot, this is the only part of the current file that looks right:
# Setting PATH for Python 3.7
# The original version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:${PATH}"
# Add Visual Studio Code (code)
export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin"
There might be something you actually want further down, but since the cat
part starts shortly after that I doubt it. In any case, this should be enough to get you a basically functional setup; if there are some things that still don't work, you may have to look through the old file for other things that need salvaging.
I'd recommend a somewhat different approach from @bmike: rather than trying to remove the bad parts from the current file, start over and add back just the good parts. It looks like there's a lot more bad than good in the current file, so this should be simpler.
What's really really really bad in the current file is the section that starts like this:
cat << EOF >> ~/.bash_profile
...and somewhere down below that there'll be EOF
alone on a line. The problem is that this isn't an instruction to set up your environment, it's instructions to add instructions to your ~/.bash_profile. In other words, every time your ~/.bash_profile runs, it adds another copy of the stuff between cat
and EOF
to the end of ~/.bash_profile, so the file gets longer and longer and longer... and has more and more copies of the messed up instructions.
At this point, your ~/.bash_profile will be huge, and mostly garbled nonsense.
So, I recommend starting over. Rename and save the current file, so you can refer back to it if necessary, then create a new blank .bash_profile in your home directory. I recommend BBEdit for this -- it has a free demo mode that'll do everything you need here, and (unlike most text editors) it won't do "helpful" things like converting plain ASCII quotes (like "
) to fancy unicode quotes (like “
and ”
) that mess up shell scripts. It also doesn't complain about saving files with names that start with ".".
From the section visible in your screenshot, this is the only part of the current file that looks right:
# Setting PATH for Python 3.7
# The original version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:${PATH}"
# Add Visual Studio Code (code)
export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin"
There might be something you actually want further down, but since the cat
part starts shortly after that I doubt it. In any case, this should be enough to get you a basically functional setup; if there are some things that still don't work, you may have to look through the old file for other things that need salvaging.
answered 7 hours ago
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I Have billions of code in the bash_profile.So it vary hard for me to pick & Choose. Moreover i already uninstall and deleted python3,VScode. I was wondering if i delete everything on bash and just keep this one line code "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" in th bash_profile. is it posiible to fix the issue? i am in real urgency.so fixing this thing quick is a big deal. later i can reinstall all the programs which should be fine? Thanks a lot again.I really Really appreciate your help
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
Are you still using Visual Studio Code? If so, I'd keep just the last two lines of what I have above. If you're not using VS Code, just remove the .bash_profile entirely (but keep a backup, just in case).PATH
should be automatically set to a reasonable (but basic) value without the file. If you do need to set it for some reason,PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
is the original default, and I'd recommend using that.
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
I just deleted everything and just kept the line "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" now seems like the terminal running again. I Just got this back: [braeburn:~ [username]$ echo $PATH. /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin.]
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
That's pretty close to the standardPATH
, but it's missing/usr/local/bin
. I'd recommend either removing that line (leaving the defaultPATH
), or force the standard value withexport PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
BTW i removed my previous SQL path [export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"], If i want to add it again to my bash_profile (otherwise MYSQL dont run for some reason) what should be the safe code?
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
|
show 3 more comments
I Have billions of code in the bash_profile.So it vary hard for me to pick & Choose. Moreover i already uninstall and deleted python3,VScode. I was wondering if i delete everything on bash and just keep this one line code "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" in th bash_profile. is it posiible to fix the issue? i am in real urgency.so fixing this thing quick is a big deal. later i can reinstall all the programs which should be fine? Thanks a lot again.I really Really appreciate your help
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
Are you still using Visual Studio Code? If so, I'd keep just the last two lines of what I have above. If you're not using VS Code, just remove the .bash_profile entirely (but keep a backup, just in case).PATH
should be automatically set to a reasonable (but basic) value without the file. If you do need to set it for some reason,PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
is the original default, and I'd recommend using that.
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
I just deleted everything and just kept the line "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" now seems like the terminal running again. I Just got this back: [braeburn:~ [username]$ echo $PATH. /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin.]
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
That's pretty close to the standardPATH
, but it's missing/usr/local/bin
. I'd recommend either removing that line (leaving the defaultPATH
), or force the standard value withexport PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
BTW i removed my previous SQL path [export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"], If i want to add it again to my bash_profile (otherwise MYSQL dont run for some reason) what should be the safe code?
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
I Have billions of code in the bash_profile.So it vary hard for me to pick & Choose. Moreover i already uninstall and deleted python3,VScode. I was wondering if i delete everything on bash and just keep this one line code "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" in th bash_profile. is it posiible to fix the issue? i am in real urgency.so fixing this thing quick is a big deal. later i can reinstall all the programs which should be fine? Thanks a lot again.I really Really appreciate your help
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
I Have billions of code in the bash_profile.So it vary hard for me to pick & Choose. Moreover i already uninstall and deleted python3,VScode. I was wondering if i delete everything on bash and just keep this one line code "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" in th bash_profile. is it posiible to fix the issue? i am in real urgency.so fixing this thing quick is a big deal. later i can reinstall all the programs which should be fine? Thanks a lot again.I really Really appreciate your help
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
Are you still using Visual Studio Code? If so, I'd keep just the last two lines of what I have above. If you're not using VS Code, just remove the .bash_profile entirely (but keep a backup, just in case).
PATH
should be automatically set to a reasonable (but basic) value without the file. If you do need to set it for some reason, PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
is the original default, and I'd recommend using that.– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
Are you still using Visual Studio Code? If so, I'd keep just the last two lines of what I have above. If you're not using VS Code, just remove the .bash_profile entirely (but keep a backup, just in case).
PATH
should be automatically set to a reasonable (but basic) value without the file. If you do need to set it for some reason, PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
is the original default, and I'd recommend using that.– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
I just deleted everything and just kept the line "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" now seems like the terminal running again. I Just got this back: [braeburn:~ [username]$ echo $PATH. /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin.]
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
I just deleted everything and just kept the line "export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin" now seems like the terminal running again. I Just got this back: [braeburn:~ [username]$ echo $PATH. /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin.]
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
That's pretty close to the standard
PATH
, but it's missing /usr/local/bin
. I'd recommend either removing that line (leaving the default PATH
), or force the standard value with export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
That's pretty close to the standard
PATH
, but it's missing /usr/local/bin
. I'd recommend either removing that line (leaving the default PATH
), or force the standard value with export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
– Gordon Davisson
7 hours ago
BTW i removed my previous SQL path [export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"], If i want to add it again to my bash_profile (otherwise MYSQL dont run for some reason) what should be the safe code?
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
BTW i removed my previous SQL path [export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"], If i want to add it again to my bash_profile (otherwise MYSQL dont run for some reason) what should be the safe code?
– Biswajyoti Roy
7 hours ago
|
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Do you have any shells still working? The quick fix would be to move / delete / rename the file you edited. It has a syntax error that's blocking the startup. If not, we'll see what the next steps are like make a new admin account should you have none and then get control again
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