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Edward Lim
Edward Lim

Reputation: 823

xcode-select -p returns command not found in terminal?

So theres my problem, according to someone when I key this in xcode-select -p, I should get /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer however what I get is this

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I have the CommandLineTools installed /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin and I also tried changing paths and such but still no luck..

EDIT: Here is what happens when I key in the following commands into terminal enter image description here

EDIT 2 (Ken Thomases):

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 4956

Answers (2)

Ken Thomases
Ken Thomases

Reputation: 90521

xcode-select is not part of the Command Line Tools nor is it part of Xcode. It is part of the base OS install.

When I do xcrun --find xcode-select it shows that the real one is in /usr/bin. That's not a stub or trampoline that redirects to some other thing in Xcode or whatever. That's the real program. (Contrast with xcrun --find cc. There's a trampoline in /usr/bin, but that's not what's reported by the xcrun command.)

Then we determine what package installed /usr/bin/xcode-select:

$ pkgutil --file-info /usr/bin/xcode-select
volume: /
path: /usr/bin/xcode-select

pkgid: com.apple.pkg.Essentials
pkg-version: 10.10.0.1.1.1429034296
install-time: 1429044400
uid: 0
gid: 0
mode: 755

Note that package ID, "com.apple.pkg.Essentials". This is part of the base OS install. If it had been installed by that package but then replaced or updated by another package, pkgutil would have listed both/all packages.

So, if you don't have any /usr/bin/xcode-select, your system is damaged. You should use the restore partition to reinstall the OS.

Upvotes: 1

matt
matt

Reputation: 534885

Say it like this:

$ xcrun xcode-select -p

This is the New Dispensation: all the tools are inside Xcode and are accessed through the single xcrun command.

Upvotes: 2

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