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I'm unable to open bashrc file in ubuntu. I tried using gedit ~/.bashrc and vi commands but its not opening.

When I open a terminal everytime, its displaying the problem like 

bash: export: `/opt/grads-2.1.0.oga.1/Contents/Resources/SampleDatasets :/usr/local/ferret/bin:/home/user/bin:/home/user/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin': not a valid identifier

After running the .profile, I'm getting the issues like 

user@revathi:~$ . ~/.profile
bash: lesspipe: No such file or directory
bash: dircolors: No such file or directory
bash: ls: No such file or directory
bash: grep: No such file or directory
bash: export: `/opt/grads-2.1.0.oga.1/Contents/Resources/SampleDatasets :/usr/local/ferret/bin:': not a valid identifier

Could anyone please help me to fix the path?

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  • What error do you get using gedit or vi?
    – stumblebee
    Dec 27, 2017 at 8:12
  • user@revathi:~$ gedit ~./bashrc bash: gedit: No such file or directory is displayed
    – REVATHI
    Dec 27, 2017 at 8:14
  • user@revathi:~$ gedit ~/.bashrc Command 'gedit' is available in '/usr/bin/gedit' The command could not be located because '/usr/bin' is not included in the PATH environment variable. gedit: command not found
    – REVATHI
    Dec 27, 2017 at 8:39

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You changed your PATH variable and included a space which hinders the system to find crucial programs. Call gedit with the full path with

/usr/bin/gedit ~/.bashrc

and correct the error. I suspect the faulty line looks like this in your case:

PATH="/opt/grads-2.1.0.oga.1/Contents/Resources/SampleDatasets :$PATH"

while it should be

PATH="/opt/grads-2.1.0.oga.1/Contents/Resources/SampleDatasets:$PATH"

instead. Then save the file, source it with . ~/.bashrc or just open a new terminal and your terminal should be back to normal.

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