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Subject: Re: ls not working on cygwin install on XP
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:44:24PM -0700, Archana  wrote:
>I installed using setup.exe and installed numerous additional packages
>in the hopes of getting ls on Windows XP.
>After double clicking on the Cygwin Icon, pwd works but ls does not.
>I expected ls to work as it is the most basic command available.
>When I run cygcheck or uname I get the following:
>bash-3.2$ cygcheck
>bash: cygcheck: command not found
>bash: uname: command not found

...which would indicate that, for some reason, your PATH environment
variable does not contain "/usr/bin".

Save the PATH and save the world.

cgf

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