Basic command lines on Mac terminal not working

Question

I changed the bash profile while trying to install mongodb and none of my command lines are working on terminal. I read online that I need to fix the $PATH but I can't even access it when none of my commands are working.

Help?

Answer 1

Mistakenly I also ran into same problem where to resolve this I had to reset my PATH variable to basic settings as below :

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin"

Once you set PATH variable now you can open the .bash_profile file in same terminal session only and make changes accordingly. This will resolve your problem.

Answer 2

Ok I found the answer from here:

"Open Terminal, and go to File (or Shell) -> New Command. Type in open -e .profile (or substitute some other file instead of .profile), and hit Run. That should open TextEdit with the file you want to fix; you can remove the offending lines there."

in my case i typed in nano .bash_profile and that allowed me to edit my bash profile and fix the issue.

can't use terminal from error in .bash_profile

Answer 3

Run this in terminal:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"