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From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cannot execute binary file
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEhDDbA-HDAc-T4FO=gTD6xH-5oaj-Y8ax2M7JkcGpq9PHhonw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP432975DFB75C789EA26B3AD9D9A0@phx.gbl>

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:07 AM, RobF  wrote:
> Seemingly spontaneously, my ls command has stopped working.
>
> $ ls
> -bash: /usr/bin/ls: cannot execute binary file
>
> I tried reinstalling bash and that didn't help.  Any suggestions?

ls.exe is in the coreutils package. Try reinstalling that.

Out of curiosity, what is the output of

file /usr/bin/ls

Csaba
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-21  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-21  4:23 RobF
2012-09-21  7:54 ` P.Long
2012-09-21  8:27 ` Csaba Raduly [this message]
2012-09-21 13:06   ` RobF
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-12-16 22:55 Gerry Reno
2013-12-17  0:27 ` Max Polk
2013-12-17  0:32   ` Gerry Reno
2013-12-17  2:39     ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2013-12-17  2:58       ` Gerry Reno
2013-12-17  9:35         ` Andrey Repin
2013-12-17 12:44           ` Tim Prince
2013-12-17 16:27             ` Gerry Reno
2013-12-17 18:59               ` Gerry Reno
2011-11-02 10:04 Edvardsen Kåre
2011-11-01 10:24 Edvardsen Kåre
     [not found] ` <4EAFE5F0.7090404@cs.umass.edu>
2011-11-01 13:00   ` Edvardsen Kåre
2011-11-02  8:11     ` Edvardsen Kåre
2011-11-02  8:42       ` Marco Atzeri
2011-11-02 11:01         ` Eliot Moss
2011-11-01 14:32   ` Edvardsen Kåre
2006-09-07 18:08 Cannot " Arun Biyani
2006-09-07 18:19 ` Dave Korn
2006-09-07 18:27   ` Christopher Faylor
2006-09-07 18:50     ` Arun Biyani

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