Commands not working on Git Bash

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Hi i am willing to use Git Bash for app dev, however whenever i start it, it gives me couple of 'bash :export:' lines and not even the clear/clrscr commands work. I am using a Windows 8.1 machine (6.00 gb ram, 1 TB - just so you know). I have tried the following:

uninstalling-reinstalling git
Using Git as CMD prompt

Below is the screenshot of the Terminal window:

Output of echo $PATH

This is my current PATH env variable:

C:\Users\Madhukar Jain.npm-global\node_modules\express;C:\Users\Madhukar Jain\AppData\Roaming\npm;%APPDATA%\Roaming\npm\node_modules.bin\;C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.2\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;

@PS. made the edits. You can check. The User name in my pc is Madhukar. — Arjun Jain, Jun 12 '17 at 09:50
check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4492979/git-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command — P...., Jun 12 '17 at 09:52
@PS. checked all options. None work. Added both cmd and bin folders with the mentioned syntax. Resarting bash, still yields the same results. — Arjun Jain, Jun 12 '17 at 10:07
try `set PATH=C:\mingw\bin;%PATH%` and then try running commands. — P...., Jun 12 '17 at 10:24
I checked out the **bin** folder of Git which consists of bash, git and sh shells. Could i use it from there? All commands work perfectly in those. — Arjun Jain, Jun 13 '17 at 06:33

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 12 '17 at 09:55

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Looks like the PATH is completely messed up. Are you using custom profile/rc file such as ~/.bashrc , ~/.bash_profile , ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile ? If yes you need to check whether the contents are syntactically correct. From the errors I feel that there are few issues with special characters such as spaces. You may have to use double quotes properly to clearly differentiate the directories in the PATH.

answered Jun 12 '17 at 09:55

asatsi

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This is my PATH variable: C:\Users\Madhukar Jain\.npm-global\node_modules\express;C:\Users\Madhukar Jain\AppData\Roaming\npm;%APPDATA%\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.bin\;C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.2\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd; – Arjun Jain Jun 12 '17 at 10:53
also since i have just reinstalled Git bash, i did not touch any of those mentioned files. – Arjun Jain Jun 12 '17 at 10:58
Turns out there was an 'export PATH' statement in my .bash_profile file. Apparently that remains untouched even after you reinstall git. Erasing its contents helped. – Arjun Jain Jun 13 '17 at 07:08

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 12 '17 at 10:04

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Try this and check

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

answered Jun 12 '17 at 10:04

skr

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check with this export PATH=$PATH:.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin – skr Jun 12 '17 at 12:02
The issue persists. – Arjun Jain Jun 12 '17 at 12:07
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Answered by asatsi – Arjun Jain Jun 13 '17 at 07:10

Commands not working on Git Bash

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