Path command

[Patrick Asselman]

On 2013-05-03 09:31, Colin Law wrote:
> On 3 May 2013 06:54, Stephen <stephen_o at bell.net> wrote:
>> It seems like my path variable in Ubuntu 12.04 got corrupted some 
>> how.
>> Programs that I used to start in a terminal are saying path not 
>> found or
>> /dir/dir/dir/ is not in the path
>>
>> When I type path in the terminal it says path not found. I thought 
>> it was
>> like dos and when you typed a variable in the terminal it told you 
>> what the
>> setting for that variable is.
>>
>> Is there some way I can restore the path variable?
>
> echo $PATH
> to see what it is
>
> Colin

Check your ~/.profile and your ~/.bashrc and maybe even your ~/.login 
file to see if the $PATH variable is overwritten by anything weird. If 
it's not there, your /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc might contain something 
funny.

Best regards,
Patrick Asselman