Edited bashrc in RHEL5 results in command not found for user

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • problem with PATH in bash:
# /bin/echo $PATH 
/usr/java/jre1.5.0_18/bin:PATH:/root/bin

  • expected results:

    # /bin/echo $PATH
 /usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

  • ran the following commands to update the environment variables:

    # cd /root.  
# echo JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_18 >> .bashrc
# echo PATH=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_18/bin:$PATH >> .bashrc
# echo export JAVA_HOME PATH >> .bashrc.

  • now nothing is working for commands:

    # ls
-bash: ls: command not found

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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