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Accidentally added a character outside of a comment in sudo file on Mac, sudo not working any more

I made a mistake in terminal, and now every time I use sudo, I get the error message: sudo: unable to initialize PAM: Invalid argument I know what I messed up, which is adding a character outside of ...
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"Command not found" while using sudo with nano

I got a problem when I want to edit files using nano with sudo. When I enter the following command: sudo nano /etc/exports I got this error sudo: nano: command not found This is the return from ...
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(MAC) Are these commands to be trusted (sudo nano)?

A person asked me to do this: Open the Terminal Enter command sudo nano /etc/hosts Hit Enter Enter the password for the Administrator Hit Enter Insert the cursor in a blank line at the end then copy ...
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