-bash command not found

Question

I am new to Mac and was following a video and typed export PATH="$HOME/opt/git/bin:$PATH" I believe this messed up my path and I am not able to install MySQL now. When I tried to install homebrew I get -bash: homebrew: command not found.

Answer 1

The command for homebrew is brew , not homebrew .

You can reset your path by restarting your shell. If you changed it in your ~/.bash_profile, edit it with TextEdit or similar first to remove the offending line, and restart the shell.

Answer 2

Quit Terminal.app and relaunch; environment variables set with export should not persist across launches.

(You may need to close windows explicitly in case Lion's automatic window restoration interferes.)

Answer 3

This could fix your problem, copy and paste the following into your terminal window and press enter:

echo export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.profile

and then:

source ~/.profile