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The upshot of all this is as follows:
Now when I launch a bash terminal window, I still can't execute wget, and more
troublingly, I can no longer execute fink from bash (though fink commander
still seems to work).
My concerns are:
1) Did I cause some scary, permanent damage to my default settings by screwing
with the path as I did?
If you edited files under /private/etc then the answer to 1) is possibly, and 2) is yes. If the files were in your home directory, then no, and no.
2) will that affect any other parts of the system?
3) is there a way to reset my path settings to their default point, ie to put
things back the way they were before I started mucking about?
Only by unediting the files you messed around with. You can delete them if they are in your home directory.
and finally 4) how then to correct the original problem of not being ablerun /sw/bin/pathsetup.command (which is a shell script)
execute wget?
Sorry if this is all old newbie territory, but I should have quit and joined
this list last night before messing around with my path settings. Sorry also if
I'm not getting the terminology correct...this unix stuff is all new,
fascinating and potentially dangerous territory for this old mac-fiend. Thanks
in advance one and all for suggestions on-list or off as appropriate.
Arik
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