From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 16 15:41:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D61037B416 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 15:41:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from list1.xs4all.nl (list1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.52]) by smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id fBGNfZlP042640 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:41:35 +0100 (CET) Received: (from root@localhost) by list1.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA16073; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:41:34 +0100 (CET) From: "hjs" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Via: imploder /usr/local/lib/mail/news2mail/news2mail at list1.xs4all.nl Subject: Re: Strange Behaviour 'ls' Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:41:25 +0100 Organization: XS4ALL Internet BV Message-ID: <9vjbf8$ku7$1@news1.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20011216231020.GA5431@raggedclown.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff, The commands you provided me produce the following output: bash-2.04$ type ls ls is /bin/ls bash-2.04$ file /bin/ls /bin/ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, not stripped Thank you for your prompt response. Kind Regards, Stof "Cliff Sarginson" wrote in message news:list.freebsd.questions#20011216231020.GA5431@raggedclown.net... > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message