Hi, I hope this is the right section for this question. We can't get basic Terminal commands to work on a new mac mini, and AppleCare won't support Terminal issues.
We are on OSX 10.6.4. Opening a terminal window, we see "(user)'s-Mac-mini:~ (user)$"
If I type "ls", some of the obvious basics are listed, like Desktop and Documents. If I type "cd Desktop", I get "~bash: cd desktop: command not found".
Similar questions online seemed to point to an issue with the PATH variable, so I type "echo $PATH" and get the following...
"~bash: /bin/echo /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin: No such file or directory"
I get the same by typing "/bin/echo $PATH". If I type "help", "cd" is listed in the list, but if I type "help cd", I get "command not found".
We have tried reformatting the drive and reinstalling the OS from the disk. This is a brand new mac mini. All we did before discovering this problem was try to install MySQL, but I would imagine a full reformat would eliminate any damage that might've caused. AppleCare refuses to cover any terminal-related issues, but they did walk us through the process of reformating the drive to make sure we were doing a COMPLETE clean reinstall back to factory defaults.
Also, we have another mac mini (10.5.something) that all of these commands work fine on.
Any other suggestions?
EDIT: I also tried going into Terminal Preferences and changing "Shell open with:" from Default (/usr/bin/login) to Command (/bin/bash)
We are on OSX 10.6.4. Opening a terminal window, we see "(user)'s-Mac-mini:~ (user)$"
If I type "ls", some of the obvious basics are listed, like Desktop and Documents. If I type "cd Desktop", I get "~bash: cd desktop: command not found".
Similar questions online seemed to point to an issue with the PATH variable, so I type "echo $PATH" and get the following...
"~bash: /bin/echo /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin: No such file or directory"
I get the same by typing "/bin/echo $PATH". If I type "help", "cd" is listed in the list, but if I type "help cd", I get "command not found".
We have tried reformatting the drive and reinstalling the OS from the disk. This is a brand new mac mini. All we did before discovering this problem was try to install MySQL, but I would imagine a full reformat would eliminate any damage that might've caused. AppleCare refuses to cover any terminal-related issues, but they did walk us through the process of reformating the drive to make sure we were doing a COMPLETE clean reinstall back to factory defaults.
Also, we have another mac mini (10.5.something) that all of these commands work fine on.
Any other suggestions?
EDIT: I also tried going into Terminal Preferences and changing "Shell open with:" from Default (/usr/bin/login) to Command (/bin/bash)