Terminal showing 'no such file or directory' for PATH variable on startup

Question

When i start my Terminal i get this message:

bash: cd: PATH=/Users/ryan/Users/ryan/Documents/Pebble-Dev/PebbleSDK-2.0-BETA3/bin:/Users/ryan/pebble-dev/PebbleSDK-2.0-BETA4/bin:/Users/ryan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-head/bin:/Users/ryan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-head@global/bin:/Users/ryan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-head/bin:/Users/ryan/.rvm/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin: No such file or directory

I realize there are multiple PebbleSDKs and the first one's path is definitely wrong. Cannot find where this is getting pulled from.

Also, when i type echo $PATH into terminal i get:

/Users/ryan/pebble-dev/PebbleSDK-2.0-BETA4/bin:/Users/ryan/pebble-dev/PebbleSDK-2.0-BETA4/bin:/Users/ryan/pebble-dev/PebbleSDK-2.0-BETA4/bin:/Users/ryan/Documents/Pebble-Dev/PebbleSDK-2.0-BETA3/bin:/Users/ryan/pebble-dev/PebbleSDK-2.0-BETA4/bin:/Users/ryan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-head/bin:/Users/ryan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-head@global/bin:/Users/ryan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-head/bin:/Users/ryan/.rvm/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

Which is also not right since it has even more multiple PebbleSDKs in it.

I have three questions: 1) Where is the inital PATH getting pulled from? 2) Where is the echo $PATH pulling from? 3 Why are they different?

Thanks!

UPDATE 1:

This is what i have in /etc/bashrc:

# System-wide .bashrc file for interactive bash(1) shells.
if [ -z "$PS1" ]; then
   return
fi

PS1='\h:\W \u\$ '
# Make bash check its window size after a process completes
shopt -s checkwinsize
# Tell the terminal about the working directory at each prompt.
if [ "$TERM_PROGRAM" == "Apple_Terminal" ] && [ -z "$INSIDE_EMACS" ]; then
    update_terminal_cwd() {
        # Identify the directory using a "file:" scheme URL,
        # including the host name to disambiguate local vs.
        # remote connections. Percent-escape spaces.
    local SEARCH=' '
    local REPLACE='%20'
    local PWD_URL="file://$HOSTNAME${PWD//$SEARCH/$REPLACE}"
    printf '\e]7;%s\a' "$PWD_URL"
    }
    PROMPT_COMMAND="update_terminal_cwd; $PROMPT_COMMAND"
fi

This is what i have in /etc/profile:

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
fi

if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then
[ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc
fi

Where would the .bashrc, .bash_profile, and .profile files you mentioned be located?

Answer 1

Check ~/.bashrc or .bash_profile for code that passes the assignment PATH=... as an argument to cd.