Can't use pip command in mac terminal without '$'

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help! I can’t use the pip command in the mac terminal without putting the dollar sign in front! why is this? is something wrong?

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Do you mean that the following does not work:

pip

but the following does?

$pip

It should not matter too much that you can’t call the pip script directly:

pip

you probably should rather always call pip’s executable module for a specific Python interpreter anyway, so a command like one of the following:

path/to/pythonX.Y -m pip

pythonX.Y -m pip

python3 -m pip

python -m pip

Now why does calling $pip work in your case? I don’t know. Maybe try the following command and let us know what the output looks like:

echo "${pip}"