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.zshrc:export:17: not valid in this context

I'm currently struggling with an error in terminal in Mac. Can someone help me to fix it?

I already tried some other forum solutions (using export and other similar solutions), but none of them was useful.
Here's the error
/Users/alessandromasala/.zshrc:export:17: not valid in this context: Preview.app/Contents/Public:/Library/TeX/texbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin

This is the content of my .zshrc

# >>> conda initialize >>>
# !! Contents within this block are managed by 'conda init' !!
__conda_setup="$('/Users/alessandromasala/miniconda3/bin/conda' 'shell.zsh' 'hook' 2> /dev/null)"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    eval "$__conda_setup"
else
    if [ -f "/Users/alessandromasala/miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh" ]; then
        . "/Users/alessandromasala/miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh"
    else
        export PATH="/Users/alessandromasala/miniconda3/bin:$PATH"
    fi
fi
unset __conda_setup
# <<< conda initialize <<<

export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:/Users/alessandromasala/miniconda3/bin:/Users/alessandromasala/miniconda3/condabin:/Users/alessandromasala/.pyenv/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Applications/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Public:/Library/TeX/texbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin
Solution

  • The problem is that on line 17 (the export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:... command), the spaces in VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app need to be quoted or escaped. Actually, it looks to me like that command got prematurely expanded, since it's replacing the entire PATH value rather than just adding to it like normal (which means that, for example, it's replacing whatever changes the earlier conda setup part did).

    I suspect that entire line should be replaced by:

    export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH"