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Hi & good day,

When starting the terminal (bash) I get the following:

Code:

-bash: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/okn/bin: No such file or directory

Should I just take away the last part: /Users/okn/bin
where okn is the name of my HOME.

I'm just too afraid to fiddle with the path.

with best regards,
Omar K N
Stockholm, Sweden

I don't see anything wrong with your $PATH.

There might be something else funny or wrong in your profile script. Maybe something's trying to use it as a variable. Could you post it please?

and do you have a bin subdir in your $HOME?

Yes - I do have a bin under HOME (don't remember how it got there).

It has a shell script ("showlines.sh")

Code:

#!/bin/bash
grep -ci word * | while read line; do
if [ ${line#*:} -gt 0 ]; then
 printf "%s\n" "$line"
fi
done

Should I move this folder / the file somewhere else?

What does the script actually do?

with best regards,
Omar K N
Stockholm, Sweden

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That script is unlikely to be the problem. If it happens when you login, it's an issue with your profile script.

It appears to count how many times 'word' is found, in all files in the current filder.

Again, please post your profile script. That may be ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, or ~/.profile depending on which you have created / edited.

In .bash_profile

I have the following:

Code:

#My PATH:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/okn/bin

which is exactly what I get at login, when it says:

Code:

-bash: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/okn/bin: No such file or directory

The path looks daunting to me anyway.

/Omar