CODEWITHSUNDEEP
bashshell
sykatch
sykatch

Reputation: 301

Sed command not found

I have this code:

if [ -d "$PATH" ]; then
ABSPATH=$( cd "`echo "$1" | sed 's/[^/]*$//'`";pwd)
fi

when I run it, I get this sed: command not found.Any command I put inside this "if" blog writes this message, XXX:command not found. I have no idea why. I have exactly the same code elsewhere in my script and it is fine there.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 41104

Answers (1)

kojiro
kojiro

Reputation: 77187

The nature of your program* snippet implies that you have just overwritten PATH. PATH is an important environment variable that lets the shell know where to find commands… commands like sed. If you overwrite it, sed will not be found.

Use another name; even lowercase path will work fine.

*I'm fairly confident that you overwrote PATH because PATH should not be a directory – it should be a colon-separated list of directories. If [ -d $PATH ] is true it either implies you have a very restrictive context for PATH, or, more likely, you have overwritten it.

Upvotes: 15

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