-bash export not a valid identifier

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Every time I open my terminal I get the error below   Last login  Sun Aug  4 17 23 05 on ttys000 -bash  export       not a valid identifier -bash  export    usr bin  bin  usr sbin  sbin  usr local bin  usr local mysql bin   not a valid identifier -bash  export       not a valid identifier -bash  export    usr bin  bin  usr sbin  sbin  usr local bin  usr local mysql bin   not a valid identifier   And here is my export output   Calvin   sunkehappy  export declare -x Apple PubSub Socket Render   tmp launch-4lEZNa Render  declare -x Apple Ubiquity Message   tmp launch-ukGAv5 Apple Ubiquity Message  declare -x COMMAND MODE  unix2003  declare -x HOME   Users sunkehappy  declare -x LANG  zh CN UTF-8  declare -x LOGNAME  sunkehappy  declare -x OLDPWD declare -x PATH   opt local bin  opt local sbin  opt local bin  opt local sbin  usr bin  bin  usr sbin  sbin  usr local bin  declare -x PWD   Users sunkehappy  declare -x SECURITYSESSIONID  186a4  declare -x SHELL   bin bash  declare -x SHLVL  1  declare -x SSH AUTH SOCK   tmp launch-YAEryC Listeners  declare -x TERM  xterm-256color  declare -x TERM PROGRAM  Apple Terminal  declare -x TERM PROGRAM VERSION  309  declare -x TERM SESSION ID  B134A404-D87F-4BB9-8A08-55F8CE923339  declare -x TMPDIR   var folders kt pfw99tps22gg2019vz8k1zcm0000gn T   declare -x USER  sunkehappy  declare -x   CF USER TEXT ENCODING  0x1F5 25 52

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First of all go to the  home directorty then open invisible shell script with some text editor     bash profile  macOS  or    bashrc  linux  go to the bottom  you would see something like this   export LD LIBRARY PATH    usr local lib  change this like that  remove blank point around the       export LD LIBRARY PATH  usr local lib  it should be useful

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Try to surround the path with quotes  and remove the spaces  export PYTHONPATH   home user my project   PYTHONPATH   And don t forget to preserve previous content suffixing by   PYTHONPATH  which is the value of the variable   Execute the following command to check everything is configured correctly   echo  PYTHONPATH

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I faced the same error and did some research to only see that there could be different scenarios to this error  Let me share my findings   Scenario 1  There cannot be spaces beside the    equals  sign    export TEMP ENV   example-value -bash  export       not a valid identifier    this is the answer to the question    export TEMP ENV  example-value -bash  export    example-value   not a valid identifier    export TEMP ENV  example-value -bash  export   example-value   not a valid identifier   Scenario 2  Object value assignment should not have spaces besides quotes    export TEMP ENV    key     json example     -bash  export       not a valid identifier -bash  export   json example   not a valid identifier -bash  export       not a valid identifier   Scenario 3  List value assignment should not have spaces between values    export TEMP ENV  1 2  3   -bash  export    3   not a valid identifier -bash  export       not a valid identifier   I m sharing these  because I was stuck for a couple of hours trying to figure out a workaround  Hopefully  it will help someone in need

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You cannot put spaces around the   sign when you do   export foo bar   Remove the spaces you have and you should be good to go   If you type   export foo   bar   the shell will interpret that as a request to export three names  foo    and bar    isn t a valid variable name  so the command fails  The variable name  equals sign and it s value must not be separated by spaces for them to be processed as a simultaneous assignment and export

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I had the same problem and figured it out from your comments  but thought I would add the reason I caused the error to occur  for other beginners    I had opened and edited  bash profile using the open command in Terminal  which opened it in Text Editor  I typed in an addition to  bash profile and it used improper quote characters  I opened  bash profile in Atom and fixed up the error  I also associated the file with Atom for future editing

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