1.3.22-1 cannot find certain commands

Fri May 16 00:51:00 GMT 2003

Dominique de Waleffe wrote:
> >>> "Larry" == Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc ) <lhall@rfk.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: Â‘bash: ls: command not foundÂ’
>>>Also 'df' doesnÂ’t work.
>>>>>>I tried other commands: find, type, grep, etc. They DO work.
>>>>>>I searched for the excutables Â‘lsÂ’ and Â‘ls.exeÂ’ 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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