So I was trying to setup the Go programming environment on my Mac and add the necessary directory to the path by modifying the .bash_profile accordingly. After saving the .bash_profile, I tried running "go version" for example but it still didn't work.
After a bit of searching I found that if i did the following: source ~/.bash_profile
The go version would work. Which it does but it seems that my PATH has been changed since commands such as: nano, vi, ls, sudo etc do not work anymore.
Is there a way of recuperating my initial environment PATH?
Thanks in advance!! :D
PS - let me know if my issue is not clear
Note that your path is likely just "broken" for your current shell session: Mac OS X doesn't strictly use .bash_profile for your PATH.
My guess is that you didn't write out export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin and export GOPATH=/Users/sSmacKk/go/ (or wherever you wanted to set it) correctly: if you forget to assign the existing path back to your new path, you'll have problems.
path_helper from /usr/libexec/path_helper (which would normally be on your path!)export GOPATH=/wherever/you/want/ and then export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin to your .bash_profilesource .bash_profile.