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'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I get this error when I try to glance at the files of my folder.
I've recently downloaded anaconda for python.During the installation process, there was a time when I allowed to add a PATH which was not recommended. 'ls' used to work well be
Here are the paths
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You can resolve this issue in three ways: First, use the full path of the executable file to launch the program. Second, add the program path to Windows environment variables. Finally, move the files to the System32 folder.
If you try using the “ls” command in Command Prompt, you will get the following error ”ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.” However, you can use the “ls” command functionality in Windows using the equivalent dir command in Command Prompt.
Use the command dir to list all the directories and files in a directory; ls is a unix command. it is possible to make dir dsplay text horizontally ? this is helpful, just type dir in the cmd not the filename and dir. @Webwoman To show text horizontally, you can use dir /w .
I'm fairly certain that the ls command is for Linux, not Windows (I'm assuming you're using Windows as you referred to cmd, which is the command line for the Windows OS).
You should use dir instead, which is the Windows equivalent of ls.
Edit (since this post seems to be getting so many views :) ):
You can't use ls on cmd as it's not shipped with Windows, but you can use it on other terminal programs (such as GitBash). Note, ls might work on some FTP servers if the servers are linux based and the FTP is being used from cmd.
dir on Windows is similar to ls. To find out the various options available, just do dir/?.
If you really want to use ls, you could install 3rd party tools to allow you to run unix commands on Windows. Such a program is Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux (link to docs).
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We can use ls and many other Linux commands in Windows cmd. Just follow these steps.
Steps:
1) Install Git in your computer - https://git-scm.com/downloads.
2) After installing Git, go to the folder in which Git is installed.
Mostly it will be in C drive and then Program Files Folder.
3) In Program Files folder, you will find the folder named Git, find the bin folder
which is inside usr folder in the Git folder.
In my case, the location for bin folder was - C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin
4) Add this location (C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin) in path variable, in system
environment variables.
5) You are done. Restart cmd and try to run ls and other Linux commands.
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