Terminal $PATH error I was adding a $PATH to .bash_profile:

PATH="/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin:$PATH"


So I could install PEAR on MAMP. That all worked, but now I have an this error each time I start up:

-bash: export: `/usr/local/bin': not a valid identifier


I tried a lot of solutions from people with similar problems, such as:

I messed up my bash configuration on mac

These are the files possibly containing the problem:

/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 ] &amp;&amp; . /etc/bashrc fi`


/etc/paths

/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin


~/.profile

export PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH"


~/.bash_profile

#export PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH"


launchctl export

    PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"; export PATH;
    TMPDIR="/var/folders/9l/7n7rrkrj0d51ydll3hb3l8780000gn/T/"; export TMPDIR;
    SHELL="/bin/bash"; export SHELL;
    HOME="/Users/XXXXXX"; export HOME;
    USER="XXXXXX"; export USER;
    LOGNAME="XXXXXX"; export LOGNAME;
    SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/tmp/launch-d3uaRv/Listeners"; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
    Apple_Ubiquity_Message="/tmp/launch-YdytLh/Apple_Ubiquity_Message"; export Apple_Ubiquity_Message;
    Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render="/tmp/launch-8QgJZ0/Render"; export Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render;
    DISPLAY="/tmp/launch-c6nAQC/org.macosforge.xquartz:0"; export DISPLAY;


printenv

TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal
TERM=xterm-256color
SHELL=/bin/bash
TMPDIR=/var/folders/9l/7n7rrkrj0d51ydll3hb3l8780000gn/T/
Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/tmp/launch-8QgJZ0/Render
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=309
TERM_SESSION_ID=8336481B-7483-4050-919F-1268887775DE
USER=XXXXXX
COMMAND_MODE=unix2003
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/launch-d3uaRv/Listeners
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0
Apple_Ubiquity_Message=/tmp/launch-YdytLh/Apple_Ubiquity_Message
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:
PWD=/Users/XXXXXX
SHLVL=1
HOME=/Users/XXXXXX
LOGNAME=XXXXXX
LC_CTYPE=UTF-8
DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-c6nAQC/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
_=/usr/bin/printenv
OLDPWD=/Users/XXXXXX


Files in '/etc/paths.d/':

40-XQuartz

/opt/X11/bin


I dont have a  bashrc directory at location /etc/bashrc.

I also don't have ~/.bashrc.

Maybe it is also useful that before I installed PEAR I added a symlink to /usr/bin maybe that is part of the problem?
The error message you listed is the result of using one of

 export $VARIABLE
 export /a/path/to/something
 export *more or less anything which is not a syntactically correct variable name*


instead of

 export VARIABLE


in one of your initialization files. To find the offending line you need to look into all the .profile, .bash_profile and anything sourced/called from there and grep for 'export ' to find it.

As it seams to be related to the installation of either PEAR or MAMP I would start looking at any additions done by these installations.