bash in Mac OSX terminal: “command not found”. Why?

Question

When I want to enter a command for example "say" it returnes me sty like this:

bash: say: command not found.

It appears every time I write a command. What do I have to do?

Answer 1

Have you made sure that your $PATH variable is set?

You can check by typing this in the Terminal:

echo $PATH

If nothing is listed after you try that... it might be part of the problem.

(For more information, you could try checking this page out: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-command-not-found-error-and-how-to-get-rid-of-it/)

Answer 2

If you use quotes it will not display them, but tell you that there is no command. Many tutorials use quotes to show what you should type in, but sometimes they don't say "Without the quotes."