Question

I’ve somehow managed to screw up bash while fiddling with the $PATH variable in my bash_profile (I think…). All I did, as far as I can remember, was add a directory to the $PATH variable. Please HELP!

Here’s what I get when I cd into various directories

my-MacBook-Pro:~ myuser$ cd .rvm
-bash: dirname: command not found
-bash: find: command not found
my-MacBook-Pro:.rvm myuser$ cd
-bash: find: command not found

And here’s what happens when I try to get into my .bash_profile to undo whatever it is that I did…

my-MacBook-Pro:~ myuser$ emacs .bash_profile
-bash: emacs: command not found

my-MacBook-Pro:~ myuser$ sudo emacs .bash_profile
-bash: sudo: command not found

Any help would be massively appreciated. I’m completely screwed until I can get bash working normally again!

Answer 1

/usr/bin/emacs .bash_profile or similar should work when the PATH is broken.