Conda command fails silently

Question

My anaconda is behaving oddly.

conda list, conda debug, conda install, all return nothing.

I have already reinstalled anaconda2, checked my path on .profile, and it's all there.

1. which -a conda

/Users/me/anaconda2/bin/conda

2. echo $PATH

/Users/me/anaconda2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin

3. ~/.profile:

# added by Anaconda2 5.0.1 installer
export PATH="/Users/me/anaconda2/bin:$PATH"

4. brew doctor:

Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.

Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:
  /Users/me/anaconda2/bin/curl-config
  /Users/me/anaconda2/bin/freetype-config
  /Users/me/anaconda2/bin/icu-config
  /Users/me/anaconda2/bin/libpng-config
  /Users/me/anaconda2/bin/libpng16-config
  /Users/me/anaconda2/bin/ncursesw6-config
  /Users/me/anaconda2/bin/pcre-config
  /Users/me/anaconda2/bin/python-config
  /Users/me/anaconda2/bin/python2-config
  /Users/me/anaconda2/bin/python2.7-config
  /Users/me/anaconda2/bin/xml2-config
  /Users/me/anaconda2/bin/xslt-config

EDIT

so far I have been able to reuse anaconda installing it via brew cask install anaconda, because I was trying to get rid of eventual (and suspected) incompatibilities between homebrew and anaconda.

for that purpose I had to reset my path to:

export PATH=/usr/local/anaconda3/bin:"$PATH"

and now anaconda works.

however, my canonical anaconda path at export PATH="/Users/me/anaconda2/bin:$PATH" remains broken up to this point.

EDIT2 Contents of /Users/me/anaconda2/bin:

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Answer 1

Something is messed up between pip and conda. Reinstalling setuptools package has worked for me.

pip uninstall setuptools
pip install setuptools

After this, conda commands started showing the output on console.

Answer 2

I have seen this happen in some circumstances if you activate a root environment as a non-root environment, where actual binaries become overwritten with symlinks (possibly pointing back to itself). The symptom you see resembles my issue, and is caused by the executable "conda" actually calling out to a subprocess for an executable "conda_install" for conda install (or similar for the others). For one reason or another, the way of calling the subprocess makes it fail silently if it cannot find the executable. To verify that you have the same problem, you can run ls -al /Users/me/anaconda2/bin and see if any of conda, activate, conda_install, conda_create etc is a dangling symlink or completely missing.