Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/23/10:37:27
Al,
Without a `cygcheck -s -v -r` output attached (as per
http://cygwin.com/bugs.html ), the only things that can be offered are
wild guesses, so here's one: it looks like you might have a misguided
alias. In bash, type
$ type -a ls
and see if there's anything unusual about it. Also, try redirecting the
output of the first ls to the file and examining it for hidden/special
characters (or simply pipe the output to 'cat -v').
Igor
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Al Kelley wrote:
> i recently reinstalled cygwin.
> now i find that the ls command
> does not work in some directories.
>
> when i give the commands
>
> cd /usr/local/c
> ls
>
> here is what gets printed on the screen:
>
> drwxr-xr-x: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> drwxr-xr-x: not found
> drwxr-xr-x: not found
> drwxr-xr-x: not found
> drwxr-xr-x: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
> -rw-r--r--: not found
>
> on the other hand, if i give the commands
>
> cd /usr/local
> ls c
>
> here is what gets printed on the screen:
>
> READ_ME cout fw lidia optsolve u_lib
> ad cr_file g_lib lindo pay unix
> alyn decss games loc pcx untab
> balance dmy gcal look pgm usno
> beeson dos2unix gcd lowercase piper vi_fttl
> birthday drip ghostview ls poly volatile
> bit_cnt eac ghs_list mac_utils prnf woodchuck
> bit_print ecpp gmp mersenne prompt wrk
> blade eqp goplot mind_reader rand wrk_gnuplot
> buffer errno gp misc reentrant wrk_libI
> c_align extract grade mk_cols remove wrk_lidia
> c_start factor hamming mktemp shadow wrk_pnp
> cal fft_nick harmonic mmf shorten_lines wrong
> cdparanoia fftw hello monty sostools wrt_char
> cdu file hoc morse_code sys wwrk
> chars first_char ieee mpack ticks xnview
> class first_word indent nedit time
> cman fix_hmwk knuth newline time_it
> color fmf libI newton translate
> comment fttl libg++ old try_me
>
> ---
> question:
> what can i do to get ls to work properly?
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