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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:10:20 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange Behaviour 'ls'
Message-ID:  <20011216231020.GA5431@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <9vj6q4$6pr$1@news1.xs4all.nl>
References:  <9vj6q4$6pr$1@news1.xs4all.nl>

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On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:20:26PM +0100, hjs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For some reason ls is not behaving anymore as I am used to.
> Whenever I run ls without any parameters all output is sent to one line that
> is wrapped at the edges of my screen. Whenever I provide parameters
> (like -al) I don't get any output whatsoever. I can't even get it to
> generate an error message by providing unused parameters.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea on what I might have done to get my system to
> behave like this and more important, how can I get ls to behave like the out
> of the box bhaviour again?
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 4.2 and a bash shell.
> 
Sounds like the "ls" you are running is not the real "ls".
Send output from:

type ls

That tells you where ls, then get the output from the command

file path_to_ls

Where path_to_ls is what "type" tells you.
and send that as well.


-- 
Regards
Cliff



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