I was setting up my classpath and path for java, and all was going well, untill....

I looked a page from my instructor on how to set up the Paths and the .bashrc and .bash_profile files were diffrent than mine. Being the *genius* I am, I re-did mine to like like his, make corrections for path names. When I tried to do an ls, command not found. can'd do anything now. What can I do?

Any help would be nice. I don't want to re-install again for this. I tried re-installing a shell that was on the disk, but nothing. I'm a newbie, as you can tell. I'm running Mandy 9.0 by the way.

Thanks

Well you can create another user as root and copy this user's files over, it will leave you pretty much at defaults, I assumed you screwed up users files not system wide files such as /etc/profile, right??? Or you can use the absolute path to the commands and programms, or you can edit the PATH again. Again I assumed you put something like this in your user's dot file (be it .bash_profile for instance) -
PATH=/path/to/java/for/instance
export $PATH
you just nulled out all the path defined system wide to /path/to/java/for/instance, what you needed to do was
PATH=$PATH:/path/to/java/for/instance
export $PATH

Yeah it was local to me(user). I'll try that. Thanks much

A few tips: if opt for copying other users files do it as root and don't forget to change ownership to your hurt user, I'd strongly suggest using adduser command line tool to create user account, and you can delete the unwanted afterwards user with userdel, and to become root from console use
/bin/su -
a dash there on porpuse, it'll load root's environment, but I guess you already know it by heart, right?

Got 'er Whooped. Thanks for your help.

wouldn't it have been easier to edit your ~/.bashrc again?

assuming, 'ls' didn't work after you edited...I'm thinking you made something like:
alias ls=some_cr@p_here

changing it back should have done the job....right?

the problem wasn't the alias. it wouldn't do ls. My alias was lst="ls -l". I got her solved though, thanks for your help.

Spuppett