[help] I tampered with .bashrc file, How to restore it

[Abhinandan Kothari]

i was configuring java on my ubuntu and by mistake i saved wrong path and now its giving error if i am typing ny command in terminal  ls, sudo , cp , mv anything.

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abhi@abhi-laptop:~$ ls
Command 'ls' is available in '/bin/ls'
The command could not be located because '/bin' is not included in the PATH environment variable.
ls: command not found
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this problem is only for user named abhi that is local user  , root does not have ny problem
actually i have wrongly edited ~/.bashrc file for user named abhi
plz help me out , how to restore the file
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Abhinandan Kothari

[NAGAMOHAN YENUGANTI]

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The path variable is corrupted. The commands are not getting executed because the path of binaries is not available. 

The commands may be executed by giving absolute path like /bin/ls

The path variable should be like this.

export PATH= /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:$PATH

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Thanking You
Y.NagaMohan
Integrated Electronics & Circuits ( 2007-09 )
M.Tech, IIT Delhi
+918050786558

[Sudarsan Sridhar]

Log in to the root user and the  ~abhi/.bashrc

Just change:

export $PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin

to

export $PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

Also, what guide are you following? Installing java in ubuntu is as simple as 

apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

All configurations including path are done automatically.

Regards,

Sudarsan

[Abhinandan Kothari]

Thanks a lot.

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Abhinandan Kothari