no command are working after i did this. i can still use the desktop and yes i fell silly

Acer Aspire ES1-533 Debian os

thanks for help :)

https://www.devopsroles.com/fix-grub-install-command-not-found-in-linux/

export PATH=/usr/sbin/grub-install/grub-install :/usr/local/sbin

source ~/.bashrc

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[–] 3 points 10 months ago

There should not be a space between the entries in $PATH, just :. Plus, this is syntactically wrong: export allows to set multiple variables separated by space, like export A=a B=b. You're essentially doing export A=a B which makes it ignore the B part as it is nonsensical.

Also path should contain directories, and /usr/sbin/grub-install/grub-install isn't a directory. In fact it almost certainly does not exist at all.

Path should contain at least /usr/bin. That's why no command works, they're all in /usr/bin. The shell looks through all the directories in $PATH (separated by :) to find commands.

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