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yayu
Asked: 2011-07-11 17:35:39 +0800 CST

I think I accidently deleted the PATH variable

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Whatever I try to run, I get the error: 

The command could not be located because '/usr/bin' is not included in the PATH environment variable.

I had some modification in my .bashrc file but then removed the two additional lines afterwards. However somehow the PATH variable seems to have been destroyed.

bashrc

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The PATH should restore on Reboot; anyways, if not the case you can find an Original .bashrc on: /etc/skel/.bashrc Overwrite using it; good luck.

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  2. May be you accidentally did the following.

    export PATH=<some path>

    Actually you have replaced the PATH , may be what you should have done is ,

    export PATH=$PATH:<some path>

    but this may not be your case. But that same error can be used to recover ,

    try below,

    export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

    this should work.

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