commands not found on zsh

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I am using the z Shell  zsh  instead of the default bash  and something wrong happen so that all commands who used to work are no longer recognized   ls zsh  command not found  ls  open -e  zshrc zsh  correct  open  to   open   nyae      I don t know how to reset zsh or how to fix this  Here is the content of  PATH variable   echo  PATH  Users Malloc bin Sencha Cmd 3 1 2 342  usr local bin mate   I cannot open the  bash profile file nor  zshrc file  seems the only solution is to reset the zsh  Any ideas    EDIT   I even tried to reset zsh as indicated in this thread  but always got command not found error   exec zsh zsh  command not found  zsh   so what s going on  why all commands are lost

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Best solution work for me for permanent change path

Open Finder-> go to folder /Users/ /usr/local/bin

open .zshrc with TextEdit

.zshrc is hidden file so unhide it by command+shift+. press

delete file content and type

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

and save

now

zsh: command not found Gone

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Restarting the terminal also made the trick for me

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If you like me  you will have two terminals app  one is the default terminal with bash as the default shell and another iTerm 2 with zsh as its shell  To have both commands and zsh in iTerm 2 from bash  you need to do the following   On iTerm 2  go to preferences  or command     Then go to the profile tab and go down to command  As you can see on the picture below  you need to select command option and paste path of zsh shell  to find the path  you can do which zsh      At this point you will have the zsh as your default shell ONLY for iTerm 2 and you will have bash as the global default shell on default mac terminal app  Next  we are still missing the commands from bash in zsh  So to do this  you need to go on your bash  where you have your commands working  and get the PATH variable from env  use this command to do that  env   grep PATH    Once you have that  go to your iTerm 2 and paste your path on  send text at start   option   export PATH  usr local bin  usr bin  bin  usr sbin  sbin  amp  amp  clear   Just reopen iTerm 2 and we are done

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You can create a symlink in  usr local bin   sudo ln -s  HOME  composer vendor bin homestead  usr local bin homestead

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In my case  it was by mistake the commented code was uncommented at the very first line     If you come from bash you might have to change your  PATH    The hash was removed  After adding it back worked fine   I just posted this here so someone might find this helpful  Because it s just start of the line and might be deleted by mistake like I had done  And seems there s no solution after trying several ways

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In my case I was using the variable path in lowercase  So in  etc profile d I was running a script that made use of the variable path  Because it was in lowercase I never thought it could mess up with the actual variable PATH  Be careful and do not use the variable path on your scripts

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A way to edit the  zshrc file without doing it through iTerm2 or native Terminal on macOS is to use a terminal in another application  For example  I  used the terminal as part of VSCode and was able to find and edit the file

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I fixed the issue by opening the terminal preference general tab and changing the Command  complete path  to  bin bash to default and then editing the    zshrc file     export PATH  all your path inside the quotes       without any whitespace between the PATH   and save the file     After saving the file  change the  bin zsh in your command or select default      and restart terminal and you should have your zsh shell working again

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My solution   Change back to bash   source  bashrc   next   echo  PATH   copy this    home frank  asdf shims  home frank        back to the zsh   source  zsh   open  zshrc   and paste    export PATH  home frank  asdf shims  home frank        restart terminal

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I had a similiar problem when I installed ZSH on my ubuntu  I was getting the error zsh  command not found node when I tried to exec node or another command  The solution for my was to open my    szhrc file and write the next code on it  export NVM DIR  quot  HOME  nvm quot    -s  quot  NVM DIR nvm sh quot     amp  amp      quot  NVM DIR nvm sh quot     This loads nvm   -s  quot  NVM DIR bash completion quot     amp  amp      quot  NVM DIR bash completion quot     This loads nvm bash completion  Then I closed and reopened my terminal and that s it

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if you are using macOS  try to follow this step if you write the code to export PATH in    bash profile then don t miss the Step 1 Step 1   make sure  bash profile is loaded when your terminal is an open  check on your    bashrc or    zshrc  if you are using zsh   is there any code similar source    bash profile or not   if not you can add manually with adding code source    bash profile in there Also make sure this code is on your  bash profile  gt  export PATH  usr local bin  usr bin  bin  usr sbin  sbin if it not in there  add that code into it  Sep 2   make sure the  quot Visual Studio Code app quot  is in the right place  gt   quot  Applications quot  or  quot  Users   whoami  Applications quot  remove the old installed vs-code PATH rm -rf  usr local bin code open  quot Visual Studio Code app quot  CMD Shift P and then select  quot Shell Command  Instal  quot code quot  command in PATH quot  restart your Mac and check by run this code -v  it should be work

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Use a good text editor like VS Code and open your  zshrc file  should be in your home directory  if you don t see it  be sure to right-click in the file folder when opening and choose option to  show hidden files    find where it states   export PATH a-bunch-of-paths-separated-by-colons  insert this at the end of the line  before the end-quote    HOME  local bin   And it should work for you   You can test if this will work first by typing this in your terminal first  export PATH  HOME  local bin  PATH  If the error disappears after you type this into the terminal and your terminal functions normally  the above solution will work   If it doesn t  you ll have to find the folder where your reference error is located  the thing not found   and replace the PATH above with the PATH-TO-THAT-FOLDER

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It s evident that you ve managed to mess up your PATH variable    Your current PATH doesn t contain any location where common utilities are located    Try   PATH  bin  usr bin  usr local bin   PATH  export PATH   Alternatively  for  resetting  zsh  specify the complete path to the shell   exec  bin zsh   or  exec  usr bin zsh

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In your    zsh config file include the path to your bash path file that contains your aliases  In my case it was including the line  source    bash profile  inside of    zsh

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As others have said  simply restarting the terminal after you ve made changes should reset and changes you ve made to your    zshrc file  For instance after adding function to open visual studio   function code         if         0        then         open -a  Visual Studio Code      else         local argPath   1              1          amp  amp  argPath   1     argPath   PWD   1              open -a  Visual Studio Code    argPath      fi     I was able to use the keyword code to open the program from the command line

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For me just restarting my terminal seemed to fix the issue

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Uninstall and reinstall zsh worked for me   sudo yum remove zsh sudo yum install -y zsh

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