Mr. Horne:
You are a GENIUS!!!!!!!!
(I hope you do not mind I am CCing your answer to the Yellow Dog List, because it might interest those many who tried to help me.)
John Horne wrote:
I saw your post while searching for a solution to the very same problem. I was rather frustrated that I could no longer use Terminal. Some people were very close to the solution, but nothing that fixed it directly for me. I figured it out though. I had to use the terminal in X11 to do this, so if you don't have X installed, i'm not sure how you would do this. Nonetheless, from some terminal, type:
defaults read com.apple.Terminal "ExecutionString"this should return something like (in my case it was):/Users/john/Desktop/fah4; exitdefaults write com.apple.Terminal "ExecutionString" ''culprit found! so we type (exactly. note the two single quotes at the end, not a double-quote):this blanks the execution string and everything is back to normal.
I repeat: you are a genius. That worked like a treat the first time. Fantastic!
So glad someone else had the same problem. I only figured out the solution from reading the most recent post and navigating the default info. I didn't know where OSX stored all that info.
Yes, Apple has quite successfully hidden that information in an "unusual" (to a Linux/bash mind) location. (Why do they persist in doing that sort of thing?)
Hope this helps and ends some of your frustration. Cheers.
It certainly has. Thanks, again!
Best wishes, Clint
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