can not open .cshrc after modifying

Question

I am on a RedHat csh. I just modified ~/.cshrc with a wrong path and resulting in an syntax-error. my shell just not recognize ls or gedit. So, when I again try to modify, it is not again opening with gedit ~/.cshrc.

When I boot the system it is not starting the profile.
I Have the root access and root profile is fine. Can I edit it from root. Please help me to remove last two lines i have added to /.cshrc, using root-profile so that it works normal as previous.

thanks.

Answer 1

I'm guessing your PATH isn't getting set properly due to the syntax-error in your .cshrc (assumption since you mention ls isn't working). Try the following from your shell:

 echo $PATH

echo is a built-in and should always work. If it returns nothing, is empty, or doesn't include a list of paths similar to /bin, /usr/bin, etc ... then your path is indeed incorrect. Use the full path to gedit on the command line like:

/usr/bin/gedit ~/.cshrc