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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Terminal App Problem - Ls Command

dfrey - Apr 29, 2005 - 3:21 pm

Hello,

Just installed Tiger and am very impressed!

Only one problem so far, I use the Terminal app constantly and have found that the “ls” command does not work when I am logged on as me (i.e. non root user). Any combination of options with “ls” is giving me the same error:

David-Freys-Computer:/Users dfrey$ ls
ls: illegal option -- -
usage: ls [-ABCFGHLPRSTWZabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]


When I am logged on as root, I do NOT have this problem… Weird.

Tried changing the groups to which my user id belongs and have had no luck.

One other aspect worth mentioning is that I used the default install option off the DVD.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as this is one of the apps I am very reliant upon.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

David

chasbutt - Apr 30, 2005 - 3:12 pm

David,

Sounds like the "ls" command is not just running ls. It appears to be receiving an option that may be coming from a bad alias or something.

Try running /bin/ls (i.e., give it the full pathname to the ls command) and see if you get different results.

Charlie
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dfrey - May 2, 2005 - 4:21 pm

Hello Charlie,

Thank you for the info. Turns out the upgrade inserted some odd alias info into my .bash_profile. Removed that line and all was right again.

Odd thing is, I upgraded another computer (Mac Mini 1.42Ghz on X.3.9) and did not have this issue at all...

Thanks again for your help,

David