Omeizi94
Omeizi94

Reputation: 49

Errors when opening terminal

When I open terminal I get the following errors. I am working with node.js and Im not sure if this is normal. Any help will be great thanks. I did not instal node with homebrew.

-bash: export: `/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin': not a valid identifier
-bash: export: `=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/Users/omarhamouda/npm/bin': not a valid identifier
-bash: export: `/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/3.2.9/bin=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/3.2.9/bin:/usr/local/bin': not a valid identifier

Contents in my .bash_profile:

export $PATH=$PATH:/Users/omarhamouda/npm/bin
export MONGO_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/3.2.9
export PATH=$PATH:$MONGO_PATH/bin 
export $PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

Upvotes: 2

Views: 55

Answers (1)

shellter
shellter

Reputation: 37258

You are using $PATH=$PATH:... for your assignments, and those are generating the error messages.

You want to use

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/omarhamouda/npm/bin
export MONGO_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/3.2.9
export PATH=$PATH:$MONGO_PATH/bin 
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

IHTH

Upvotes: 4

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