Path command

[Stephen]

On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 08:20 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thank you for the reply.

There is no csh.login file in the directory /etc/

I forgot to mention that I installed the classic Gnome desktop because I
didn't like the Unity interface, but I like Gnome.

Stephen