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carol
carol

Reputation: 171

export, bash command not found

I have used export before but I don't know why when I set the variable PATH to any directory this time, ls, awk commands are not found but no problem with pwd, cd

export PATH="/Users/carolW/Desktop"

ls
-sh: ls: command not found

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2598

Answers (2)

Barmar
Barmar

Reputation: 780984

Use:

export PATH=/Users/carolW/Desktop:$PATH

You're removing all the normal directories from your path, so it only looks in your Desktop folder for everything. You just want to add your directory, not replace the entire path with it.

Upvotes: 2

grodzi
grodzi

Reputation: 5703

most probably because pwd and cd are built shell command (you can test: which pwd which ls ) However, ls are such are tools you can find in /bin directory or such, and those paths are defined in your variable PATH. If you clear the variable PATH, most likely you won't find your tool anymore.

You may use export PATH=$PATH:"/Users/carolW/Desktop" So that you concatenate your path to the already existing paths

Upvotes: 0

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