From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2490 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2012 07:54:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 2477 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Sep 2012 07:54:10 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vc0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-vc0-f171.google.com) (209.85.220.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:53:57 +0000 Received: by vcmm18 with SMTP id m18so3966062vcm.2 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:53:56 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.35.16 with SMTP id d16mr924667vdj.74.1348214036628; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.234.199 with HTTP; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:53:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:27:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: cannot execute binary file From: Csaba Raduly To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-09/txt/msg00265.txt.bz2 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 -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple