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bubblegumsoldier
(Henry Müssemann)
January 15, 2026, 8:34am
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Cursor isn’t able to perform the simplest of commands. When I copy what it tries into my command line, it works… anything I can do?
bubblegumsoldier
(Henry Müssemann)
January 15, 2026, 8:43am
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I added more information here. Managed to solve it by commenting out my .bash_profile file.
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