cd and ls wont work in terminal mac.

Question

Can anybody explain what is wrong with my terminal:

 
$ echo $PATH
=/usr/local/bin
$ ls
-bash: ls: command not found
$ cd
-bash: find: command not found

Why won't these commands work? Help? Anyone?

Answer 1

You have a typo in your PATH. That = character shouldn't be there. There is no =/usr/local/bin directory. It should be /usr/local/bin. But also, you probably want several other directories on your PATH, separated by : characters. Typically, it'll be something like this:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/myname/bin