OSX messed up PATH

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I was trying to make Sublime editor work from Terminal following this guide and by doing so I modified the .bash_profile file and apparently my PATH. While I was doing this I was positioned in some random folder in Terminal, it was /Users/apple/Desktop/RailsCode/readit/ and now if I want to run command open ~./bash_profile it says: The file /Users/apple/Desktop/RailsCode/readit/~./bash_profile does not exist. And it worked before, it seems to me I messed up my default PATH. How to resolve this?

are you maybe confusing `~./bash_profile` (a directory named "bash_profile" which doesn't exist) and `~/.bash_profile` (a file in your root folder)? — gpinkas, Nov 10 '15 at 12:51

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 10 '15 at 13:24

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Your command is not quite right:

open ~./bash_profile
      ^

should be:

open ~/.bash_profile
       ^

edited Nov 10 '15 at 13:24

fedorqui

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answered Nov 10 '15 at 12:48

Paul R

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exactly, it was a typo... thanks – Whizzil Nov 10 '15 at 13:09
How is this question a dup...? – Thomas Ayoub Nov 10 '15 at 14:29
@Thomas: I didn't actually flag it as a dupe (I flagged it as belonging on superuser.com, since it's not a programming question), but I guess someone else used their dupehammer. – Paul R Nov 10 '15 at 14:33

OSX messed up PATH

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