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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 18:23:00 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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To: Dominique de Waleffe <ddw AT missioncriticalit DOT com>
CC: Jorgo Miridis <miridis AT prodigy DOT net DOT mx>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: 1.3.22-1  cannot find certain commands
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Dominique de Waleffe wrote:
>   >>> "Larry" == Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc ) <lhall AT rfk DOT com> writes:
> 
> Larry> Jorgo Miridis wrote:
> 
>>>I used the latest installer 2.340.2.5 and installed cygwin.
>>>
>>>When executing 'ls' in bash I get: ‘bash: ls: command not found’
>>>Also 'df' doesn’t work.
>>>
>>>I tried other commands: find, type, grep, etc. They DO work.
>>>
>>>I searched for the excutables ‘ls’ and ‘ls.exe’ but they do not exist in
>>>the cygwin tree.
>>>
>>>Is ls a shell builtin?
> 
> 
> Larry> No.  You can find what package it (and any other utility) is in at
> Larry> <http://cygwin.com/packages/>.
> 
> 
>>>Can anybody help me find out what's wrong?
> 
> 
> Larry> If the above doesn't provide the pointer you need to solve
> Larry> your problem, please visit <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
> Larry> for information on providing this list with a problem report.
> Larry> This report will help someone here can understand your
> Larry> installation.
> 
> I have experienced that type of problem too: I could not execute
> find, even though it was in the path.  After my recent upgrade, I had
> troubles to execute 'lib' but lib.exe was working: I tracked it to
> the existence of a directory named lib in one of the path's.
> 
> My offfice mate also has problems calling certain programs, e.g. head
> even though it is present in that the path. The problem is a bit
> different but has the same level of annoyance: in the case of
> head. The 'head' of perl is called even though perl is later in the
> path. Calling head.exe works.
> 
> Is anyone trying to address this type of issues. 


AFAIK, not actively, no.


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