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Hallelujah (lemmy.world)
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[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As of Aug 26, 2023, Windows command prompt absolutely does not recognize “ls” as a command.

Powershell is a different story.

Source: I type “ls” 40 times a day into a command prompt on my up-to-date win10 PC at work.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I literally just typed it into cmd.exe on Windows 10, fully updated, and it absolutely did work. No idea why it doesn’t work for you.

edit: ???

edit: it's been traced back to this:

https://github.com/devkitPro/installer/releases

which is an emulator toolset that I didn't know existed on my system until today.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That is interesting. I just remoted into 5 different machines at the office and none of them worked with ‘ls’. If you enter ‘ls /?’, does it give you a synopsis and argument list?

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mystery solved, ls works for me due to this:

https://github.com/devkitPro/installer/releases

which is a toolset that was installed by an emulator package somewhere along the line, I just didn't know it was there.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for letting us know!

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

If I do “ls /?” it returns no such file or directory, but just “ls” performs exactly as you’d expect. I haven’t installed anything to provide that function that I know of. It never occurred to me that I would have to because as far as I know it’s always worked. Until today I just assumed it had become a standard command and never investigated. Was just happy I could use the same command in cmd and on my Pi box.

[–] icesentry@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity what do you do to frequently end up with cmd? I don't think I've touched it in many years at this point.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Lately I’ve been using it as a simple way to drag and drop a source .tar.xz archive on a .bat file so it can be twice extracted, moved, renamed, have dependencies downloaded by git, run a cmake process, do a visual studio compile, then move the result release directory back to where the .bat file is while removing unneeded files and adding new ones.

cmd and batch still has its uses.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

It’s my own fault, and the result of 30+ years of muscle memory building up. Plus, while I agree cmd isn’t nearly as powerful as powershell or wsl can be, when I’m in Windows it’s still the fastest way for me to do 90% of the simple things I need to do. I have a long history with it, and a thorough understanding of it, so I don’t really need to think for most of the things I’m doing there.

If I need to script something, or do anything that seems like it would be annoying to do in CMD, I hop into WSL pretty quickly and get to work with bash or python. The problem I have now is that I’ve developed a little muscle memory there as well… hence my issue with entering ‘ls’ everywhere.

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't remember doing anything and "ls" works for me

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It works on Powershell but not with CMD.

That's a problem when using NeoVim on windows