which command fails

J S vervoom@hotmail.com
Thu Dec 19 09:31:00 GMT 2002





Sorry I copied the wrong line. This is what I'm getting even after doing a 
reinstall:


u752359@A217447D ~
$ which ls
ls: Command not found.


>correct syntax of which is "which ls", remember that the goal of which
>is to show the  path of the command you give as a parameter.
>
>see "man which".
>  --- J S <vervoom@hotmail.com> a écrit : > Hi,
> >
> > Since I upgraded cygwin I can't use the which command. It keeps
> > saying:
> >
> > $ which /usr/bin/ls
> > /usr/bin/ls: Command not found.
> >
> >
> > My path appears to be OK:
> >
> > $ echo $PATH
> >
>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/wmaker/bin:/cygdriv
> >
>e/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/ora8i/bin:/cygdrive
> > /c/Program
> >
>Files/Oracle/jre/1.1.7/bin:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/E!PC:/cygdrive/c/ACE/rdbms32/bin:/cygdriv
> > e/c/Program Files/Attachmate/E!E2K/:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/ULTRAE~1
> >
> > The which also looks OK, and is the same as the which in the old
> > cygwin I
> > had:
> >
> > $ which
> > usage: which [-a] command...
> >
> > $ ls -l which
> > -rwx------    1 544      10513        4608 Nov 15  2001 which
> >
> >
> > Any ideas what could be going wrong?
> >
> > JS.
> >
> >
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