[NTLUG:Discuss] Command not found

[Chris Cox]

Chris Cox wrote:
> 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

A fix for files with colons...

find . -type f -print0 |
 xargs -0 file |
 grep -i text |
 sed 's/:\([^ ]\)/\o002\1/g' |
 cut -f1 -d: |
 tr '\012\002' '\000:' |
 xargs -0 grep ANT_HOME

(Assumes filenames do not contain a ^B character.. unlikely)

> 
> (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.
>