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Development Tools Console Foundations Environment and Redirection Pipes and Redirection

Posted by Gary Calhoun
Gary Calhoun
10,317 Points

Need help fixing my console please...

Hi whenever I open a new workspace for the console its says not a valid identifier for the bash export:

-bash: export: 'PATH-/home/treehouse/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games': not a valid identifier

1 Answer

Plamen Neshkov
Plamen Neshkov
18,236 Points

Make sure you are following the correct syntax for adding more paths to the PATH variable:

export PATH=example/path:$PATH
Gary Calhoun
Gary Calhoun
10,317 Points

thanks seems I had one to many slashes