Path command

[Tom H]

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Patrick Asselman <iceblink at seti.nl> wrote:
> On 2013-05-03 09:31, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 3 May 2013 06:54, Stephen <stephen_o at bell.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> It seems like my path variable in Ubuntu 12.04 got corrupted some how.
>>> Programs that I used to start in a terminal are saying path not found or
>>> /dir/dir/dir/ is not in the path
>>>
>>> When I type path in the terminal it says path not found. I thought it was
>>> like dos and when you typed a variable in the terminal it told you what
>>> the
>>> setting for that variable is.
>>>
>>> Is there some way I can restore the path variable?
>>
>> echo $PATH
>> to see what it is
>
> Check your ~/.profile and your ~/.bashrc and maybe even your ~/.login file
> to see if the $PATH variable is overwritten by anything weird. If it's not
> there, your /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc might contain something funny.

"~/.login" is for csh or tcsh; so rather than check the files that I
listed earlier, you'd have to look at "/etc/csh.login", "~/. cshrc",
"~/.login", "~/.tcshrc" as well as the two "profile" files.