• Consti@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    Opening a new terminal should work, since those commands you posted affect just the running shell. If not, you broke something else.

    Edit: Assuming you pit that export line into ~/.bashrc, just remove it. You might need to enable showing hidden files in your file explorer, them edit it as a text file.

  • RedWeasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    Try opening a new terminal. If the commands don’t work, type “export PATH=/usr/bin” not quotes and try again and fix what you did.

  • RavenofDespair@lemmy.mlOP
    1·
    5 months ago

    sorry forgot i edited the .bashrc file with

    export PATH=/usr/sbin/grub-install/grub-install :/usr/local/sbin

    then ran source ~/.bashrc

  • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 months ago

    There should not be a space between the entries in $PATH, just :. Plus, this is syntactically wrong: export allows to set multiple variables separated by space, like export A=a B=b. You’re essentially doing export A=a B which makes it ignore the B part as it is nonsensical.

    Also path should contain directories, and /usr/sbin/grub-install/grub-install isn’t a directory. In fact it almost certainly does not exist at all.

    Path should contain at least /usr/bin. That’s why no command works, they’re all in /usr/bin. The shell looks through all the directories in $PATH (separated by :) to find commands.