How to recover from The command could not be located because '/usr/bin' is not includ

[antoaravinth]

Hi all,

I added these lines to my `.bashrc` file:

export vertx_home=/anto/vertx/bin
    export PATH=${PATH}:${vertx_home}/bin

after doing that. I get an error message like that for all command's I run, for example:`clear`,`groovy` :

Command 'clear' is available in '/usr/bin/clear'
    The command could not be located because '/usr/bin' is not included in the PATH environment variable.
    clear: command not found

How to recover from it? I couldn't able to open anything via terminal

I did :

echo $PATH

which prints:

${PATH}:${VERTX_HOME}

I'm very new to Ubuntu. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10. Now what I need is to know where that .bashrc file resides as I can go there manually and change it. Kindly help.

Thanks in advance.

[lukeiamyourfather]

This is what you were probably wanting to do.

PATH=$PATH:/anto/vertx/bin

Since your path is all jacked up either use a different user to modify the files or call a text editor directly with the full path to it.