Bash command not found

I am working on installing a physics simulation software package. It comes with a script that is supposed to compile the source code and install all of the data libraries for the simulation software. The installation exited with an error so I then thought maybe I needed to execute the script in sudo for it to work. When I type sudo I get the following:

-bash: sudo: command not found

I have also checked to see if a few other things are installed like gcc and command lines tools but I always get responses like
-bash: gcc: command not found
-bash: xcode-select: command not found

This leads me to believe that the problem is not with the script to install but with OSX. This is being installed on a fresh installation of 10.9, any advice?

A fresh installation of OS X will not have the developer tools. You need to install XCode which will give you the command line GCC and other related tools.

As to 'sudo' not working, that's a bit strange as that should be part of the the base OS X installation.

What happens when you type
on the command line?

I should have clarified fresh installation. I was having these problems so I reformated and installed xcode and command line tools. Command line tools were installed from a .dmg file downloaded form the apple developer site so everything *should* be installed that is necessary.

When I do "which sudo" I get the same bash command not found jargon. In the past I could see command line tools installed from the downloads tab in preferences but it is not listed there this time. I did find it listed in the locations tab though. I attached two screen shots of what I see in xcode.

Type 'echo $PATH' without the quotes. What do you get?

MY_MCNP UNEP$ echo $PATH
/Users/UNEP/MY_MCNP/MCNP_CODE/bin/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin

Your Path is messed up.
/Users/UNEP/MY_MCNP/MCNP_CODE/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin
See where I put the colon after _CODE/bin ? As is /usr/bin is not found. Are you using a .bashrc or .bash_profile or .profile file in your Home folder?

cradom said:

Your Path is messed up.
/Users/UNEP/MY_MCNP/MCNP_CODE/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin
See where I put the colon after _CODE/bin ? As is /usr/bin is not found. Are you using a .bashrc or .bash_profile or .profile file in your Home folder?

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I am using .bash_profile. Here is what the file looks like right now:


does something on one of those two lines need to be changed or something added to it?

Edit it so it says
At the end right before $PATH you need a colon. Not really sure about the first one but try anyway, right before $DATAPATH, another colon.
Restart Terminal so it takes.

cradom's answer should fix this since many of the build tools that you'll need - gcc, make, xcode-select - are in /usr/bin. Since that isn't getting properly registered now, a quick fix to the env variable in your .bash_profile should clear this up nicely.

Thank you thank you everyone! It all installed correctly this morning. I'm curious how the bash become messed up being a fresh install but oh well, it's fixed now!

Looks like whatever script installed that MCNP_CODE stuff didn't add to the $PATH correctly. Programmers make mistakes too.
Glad you got it right.