Problems with simple bash commands in the shell

Question

Hello,

I need to add java to my PATH on one of my Linux servers, to do this I edited the bashrc and added,

PATH=/usr/local/jdk1.6.0/bin
export PATH

Since then I have not been able to use simple bash commands like ls nano locate cp is there any way I can fix this? The OS of the server is CentOS 5 with Plesk 9 (64-bit), can anyone help me recover basic functionality in my terminal?

Answer 1

You have to add the java path to your PATH variable, not set PATH to only include the java path

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/jdk1.6.0/bin
export PATH