Terminal commands not working.

Hey all, well it seems I've really messed it up. I've ventured into my first experience with database application programming using mySQL and have royally screwed up my Terminal. When I start up Terminal, the second line says: -bash: ps: command not found (the first line just says my last login). And that definitely did not happen before I started messing with it. I cannot do any of the normal commands like cd or ls or anything. I have no idea how to fix this, I've looked around on stack overflow and other sites like it but cannot find a solution that does me any real good.
I'm on a Retina MacBook Pro running Mavericks. 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Processor and 16 gigs of RAM.
I've tried to find a way to reset my Terminal by going to Library-Preferences-and trying to find that com.apple.Terminal.plist file but for some reason that's not even there. Maybe that's what my problem is? Anyway, any help is appreciated as I would love to get back up and running with database programming asap.
Thanks.

Problem solved! I messed with my .profile file and changed the path around a while ago when first starting with all this. I reverted back to the original .profile file and that fixed everything.

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