'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.
4 Answers
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).
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.
If you want to use Unix shell commands on Windows, you can use Windows Powershell, which includes both Windows and Unix commands as aliases. You can find more info on it in the documentation.
PowerShell supports aliases to refer to commands by alternate names. Aliasing allows users with experience in other shells to use common command names that they already know for similar operations in PowerShell.
The PowerShell equivalents may not produce identical results. However, the results are close enough that users can do work without knowing the PowerShell command name.
dir
on windows is similar tols.
Dodir/?
for various options. You could also install 3rd party tools to allow you to run unix commands on windows. Try cygwin – Gerhardls
also might work on some ftp servers if they have a linux based back. That ftp being used from cmd – RishavWindows Subsystem for Linux
. docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 – lit