Thank you, that was exactly the problem. I had, for reasons I no longer recall, copied TextMate's bash_init.sh to my Application Support directory. Pauli <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:26 AM, joseph davison <<a href="mailto:jwdavison@me.com">jwdavison@me.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It seems like your bash_init.sh file sources itself, or a copy. You didn't happen to copy TextMate's bash_init.sh file to your Application Support directory, did you? You source the one in /Applications/TextMate.app, which sources the one in your Library/Application Support directory, which, if it's the same as the one in /Applications then sources the one in your Library, which is a loop. I had some problems with something like that when I started, too. Try putting only the stuff you want to add to the environment in your Library's version. joe <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Jan 24, 2010, at 2:08 AM, Pauli Price wrote: > Recently any attempt to do something in TM that required a shell command would hang. After finding the troubleshooting info on the wiki, I ran the following command from the terminal. The results are shown. Any suggestions on how to fix? My shell-fu is pretty rusty. > > BASH_ENV=/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/bash_init.sh /bin/bash -xc 'echo test' 2> tm.debug > > tm.debug contents: > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > + unset BASH_ENV > + export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > + LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > + : /Users/user/Library/Application Support/TextMate/bash_init.sh > + '[' '!' -f '/Users/user/Library/Application Support/TextMate/bash_init.sh' ']' > + set +u > + [[ -d /bin ]] > + PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/imagemagick-6.5.2/bin:/usr/local/imagemagick-6.5.2/bin:/usr/local/imagemagick-6.5.2/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/bin > + [[ -d /bin/CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS ]] > + [[ -d '' ]] > + export PATH > + [[ -f /Users/user/Library/Application Support/TextMate/bash_init.sh ]] > + . '/Users/user/Library/Application Support/TextMate/bash_init.sh' > ++ unset BASH_ENV > ++ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > ++ LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > ++ : /Users/user/Library/Application Support/TextMate/bash_init.sh > ++ '[' '!' -f '/Users/user/Library/Application Support/TextMate/bash_init.sh' ']' > ++ set +u > ++ [[ -d /bin ]] > ++ PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/imagemagick-6.5.2/bin:/usr/local/imagemagick-6.5.2/bin:/usr/local/imagemagick-6.5.2/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/bin:/bin > ++ [[ -d /bin/CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS ]] > ++ [[ -d '' ]] > ++ export PATH > ++ [[ -f /Users/user/Library/Application Support/TextMate/bash_init.sh ]] > ++ . '/Users/user/Library/Application Support/TextMate/bash_init.sh' > +++ unset BASH_ENV > +++ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > +++ LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > +++ : /Users/user/Library/Application Support/TextMate/bash_init.sh > +++ '[' '!' -f '/Users/user/Library/Application Support/TextMate/bash_init.sh' ']' > +++ set +u > +++ [[ -d /bin ]] > +++ PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/imagemagick-6.5.2/bin:/usr/local/imagemagick-6.5.2/bin:/usr/local/imagemagick-6.5.2/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/bin:/bin:/bin > +++ [[ -d /bin/CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS ]] > +++ [[ -d '' ]] > +++ export PATH > +++ [[ -f /Users/user/Library/Application Support/TextMate/bash_init.sh ]] > +++ . '/Users/user/Library/Application Support/TextMate/bash_init.sh' > > ... and so on, nesting deeper and deeper, while adding :/bin to the path on each level > > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > textmate mailing list > <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> > <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate" target="_blank">http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate</a> _______________________________________________ textmate mailing list <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate" target="_blank">http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate</a> </blockquote></div>