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Reputation: 95

'export' command not found on new terminal window

Upon opening a new terminal I will get 

-bash: ‘export: command not found

This line will only appear once then my base cmd line reappears.

I have read the other stackoverflow answers that seem similar but for some reason they get the error 

-bash: ‘export: command not found

multiple times consecutively rather than just once.

I want to understand why this is appearing and if so what are likely causes. I am currently working on creating a website and had installed some of the requisite things like ruby but I do not know what specifically would have caused this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 766

Answers (1)

Lightness Races in Orbit
Lightness Races in Orbit

Reputation: 385405

The error message shows a U+2018 character ("LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK"), i.e. a "smart quote".

This is likely coming from a .bashrc or .profile that's executed on Bash startup. Look for it next to an utterance of export.

Since it's not a script character (like a normal quote ') Bash is considering it to be part of the command name, and there is indeed no such command as ‘export.

Upvotes: 1

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