[NTLUG:Discuss] Command not found

[Chris Cox]

Tom Tumelty wrote:
> On 1/25/07, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
>>Tom Tumelty wrote:
>>>I am running Slackware 10.2  and  2 errors appeared  :
>>>
>>>-bash: PATH: command not found
>>>-bash: ANT_HOME: command not found
>>>
... snippity...
> 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion but that does not seem to be the problem.
> Would it help to post part or all of  /etc/profile  ?
> 
> I have looked for .bashrc , .bashprofile ,  /etc/bashrc and found none of
> these files.
> I thought each home directory would have a .bashrc file in it but i do not
> find that file anywhere on the system.

Time to go hunting...

# cd /etc
# find . -type f -print0 |
 xargs -0 file |
 grep -i text |
 cut -f1 -d: |
 tr '\012' '\000' |
 xargs -0 grep ANT_HOME

(that mess simply does a grep through all of the text files...
works for most files except those with colons in their names...
obviously there are other simpler ways... but not as robust...)

If you have the patience, you can try that mess on a higher level
directory.  Might get too many matches though.

It's possible that the variables are being pulled in from /etc/profile.d/* if
slackware implements such.