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Posted by Eray Tavukcu
Eray Tavukcu
4,922 Points

Console Foundations

Hello guys, I have a question about console. Whenever I try to list by using "ls" it says "there is no such directory or file" but whenever I do like "LS" it shows all directory. I searched but I couldn't find something useful. I hope someone can help me with this. Thank you.

6 Answers

Mariano Garzaro
Mariano Garzaro
5,053 Points
Mariano Garzaro
Mariano Garzaro
5,053 Points

Hello Eray,

Can you check a couple of things to see how lsis defined on your system?

Try typing which ls to see that path of where the ls binary is located. Also, you can type echo $PATH to show your entire path. It should have something like usr/bin listed.

If you are in your home directory, you can edit the .bashrc' file and add an alias ls='ls'

Hope that helps!

Eray Tavukcu
Eray Tavukcu
4,922 Points
Eray Tavukcu
Eray Tavukcu
4,922 Points

Hello Mariano,

I did what you suggested and i got this "$ echo $PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin"

So i guess i just need to add alias for ls.

Thank you.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

What is the output you got from which ls?

Eray Tavukcu
Eray Tavukcu
4,922 Points
Eray Tavukcu
Eray Tavukcu
4,922 Points

which ls gives me this output :

$ which ls /bin/ls

Thank you.

Eray Tavukcu
Eray Tavukcu
4,922 Points
Eray Tavukcu
Eray Tavukcu
4,922 Points

Also while terminal is opening i get this :

-bash: exy: command not found

Mariano Garzaro
Mariano Garzaro
5,053 Points
Mariano Garzaro
Mariano Garzaro
5,053 Points

It sounds like path for ''' ls ''' is there. Which distribution are you using and have you rebooted at least once? Perhaps a re-install of the ''' terminal console ''' might clear up the issue assuming no other customization was made. If you were already in the ''' /usr/bin ''' path as listed in your output from above, '''' ls ''' should work right away without error. Hope that helps.

Eray Tavukcu
Eray Tavukcu
4,922 Points
Eray Tavukcu
Eray Tavukcu
4,922 Points

Thank you Mariano,

I guess i ll re-install terminal console. It might be because of "iterminal" that i install earlier.

Thank you again.