Hi I broke my terminal environment or something because I have no idea how any of this stuff works and I was trying to install tartube by following the installation instructions for it on Github. So mindlessly copy/pasting the commands in the guide into terminal... then after I ran these commands for troubleshooting the install:
echo "export PATH="python3 -m site --user-base/bin:$PATH"" >> ~/.zprofile
source ~/.zprofile
Now this is what my terminal looks like after opening it and trying to run some basic commands:
Last login: Sat Nov 11 20:10:15 on ttys000
/Users/censoringmyfullname/.zprofile:export:6: not valid in this context: -m
/etc/zshrc:7: command not found: locale
/etc/zshrc_Apple_Terminal:104: command not found: mkdir
censoringmyfullname@supername-mbp ~ % zsh
zsh: command not found: zsh
censoringmyfullname@supername-mbp ~ % brew
zsh: command not found: brew
censoringmyfullname@supername-mbp ~ % sudo
zsh: command not found: sudo
censoringmyfullname@supername-mbp ~ %
censoringmyfullname@supername-mbp ~ % echo $PATH
/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/Users/censoringmyfullname/.pyenv/bin:python3
So now my terminal says weird stuff when I open it and none of the commands work. I've tried a bunch of internet guides to reset zsh shells, whatever that is, by some variation of PATH = "gibb:/erish/gobblygook" and nothing works.
Any advice or especially commands that magically fix this with no explanation would be wholly appreciated by grug, so that I can return to world of concepts I understand, thank you !!!! (I will venmo and/or send good vibes - thank you)
I read this https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 and this https://youngstone89.medium.com/setting-up-environment-variables-in-mac-os-28e5941c771c and also this Command not found when opening terminal, possible conda issue?
And none helped
The quoting in that command is completely messed up, so the first thing to do is remove the line it added from your ~/.zprofile file. From the error message, that appears to be line #6 in the file (and probably the last line, unless something else has been added after it). The line will look something like this:
export PATH=python3 -m site --user-base/bin:/lots/more/stuff/here
You can do this with a command-line editor if you're comfortable with one, but you'll need to specify the full path to the editor, like /usr/bin/nano ~/.profile or /usr/bin/vi ~/.profile. If you prefer to use a GUI editor, I recommend BBEdit for things like this. Even in free/unpaid mode, it can edit hidden files (like .zprofile), and it doesn't mess things up by adding formatting, smart quotes, etc like many editors do.
Once you've removed that, open a new Terminal window and make sure things are working normally, then run this to add the correct line to your ~/.zprofile. I think this'll do the right thing:
echo 'export PATH="'"$(python3 -m site --user-base)"'/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zprofile
source ~/.zprofile