Problem with Terminal

[sea]

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[indikal]

I'm new to this forum but like to share how I fixed it.

I had the same issue when "su <userid>" and got following

bash: id: command not found
bash: id: command not found
bash: ls: command not found
bash: tty: command not found

When I check "echo $PATH" I got:

/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24/bin:/usr/lib64/ccache:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

I finally found one entry in /etc/environment causing this errors. This contained:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
export JDK_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24

The issue was with the second line but I do not know why. Once I commented it out all those error lines disappeared. May be PATH is not defined by the time "environment" is loading.

[sea]

I dont think one should mess with /etc/environment, unless you know EXACTLY what you do.
To add custom path variables, append the syntax you posted at the end of one of these files,
or plae a scriptfile in the folder:
Files:

• /etc/bashrc
• ~/.bashrc
• ~/.bash_profile

Folders: (suggested)

• /etc/profile.d/YOURSCRIPT-WITH-MODIFICATIONS.sh

[jpollard]

Might be a context problem..

Normally I see this avoided by:

export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

Though the "...${PATH}" isn't usually needed.

Such errors are usually caused by a typo where the shell can't identify PATH as the environment variable, or is quoted such that the $ is not interpreted.