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05-02-2005	#1 (permalink)
n00b1337 Just Joined! Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 10	cannot execute Binary When i write "dir" to see what's in a folder the terminal says: Bash: /bin/dir cannot execute binary file. What can i do? i Find this pretty anoying and need help. thx in forward.

05-02-2005	#2 (permalink)
serz Linux Engineer Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Posts: 908	dir doesn't exist in Linux, the command that's used in UNIX-like systems is ls. __________________ serzsite.com.ar "All the drugs in this world won\'t save you from yourself"

05-02-2005

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drakebasher

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Re: cannot execute Binary

Quote:

Originally Posted by n00b1337

What can i do? i Find this pretty anoying and need help.

Yeah, well Linux finds it annoying when users ask it to do Windows commands....

In the Tutorials section of the forums is this one on basic bash commands:
http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials...rial-1154.html

For more information, O'Reilly & Associates has an excellent small book called Linux Pocket Guide

A useful command (sometimes) when you want to do something, but you don't know what command will work, use the command 'apropos' with a keyword of what you are looking for. To see commands related to listing the contents of a directory, I would try:

Code:

apropos list
...or...
apropos directory

Finally, if you know a command, but you are not sure what it does or how to use it, use the 'man' command to see the "manual" pages:

Code:

man commandname

Press 'q' to quit from 'man'.

For man pages online, along with a handy list of most commands, go on-line to http://linuxreviews.org/man/

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05-02-2005	#4 (permalink)
scm Linux Engineer Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,004	You can set aliases in the shell if you feel more comfortable with DOS commands (I must admit that DOS's md command is the only one with a better name than the UNIX one ): Code: alias dir="ls -l" alias copy=cp alias rename=mv Put them in one of your bash profile files to make them "permanent". Steve

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Quote:

Originally Posted by serz

dir doesn't exist in Linux, the command that's used in UNIX-like systems is ls.

Unfortunately, you are mistaken. dir does exist in GNU/Linux, and is part of the fileutils package. I find it annoying whenever I try to convert somebody to linux they never warm up to ls, even though it is much more powerful.

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05-03-2005

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drakebasher

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Re: cannot execute Binary

Quote:

Originally Posted by I

Code:

apropos list
...or...
apropos directory

...but when you do that, you'll get 200 lines of output from the first command and 61 lines from the second. So even better would be:

Code:

apropos list | grep directory

...which will result in only 4 commands, including both 'dir' and 'ls'. Let's see what dos can do to match that!

Resource: Linux Pocket Guide

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05-03-2005	#7 (permalink)
serz Linux Engineer Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Posts: 908	Yes, you're right lakerdonald, my mistake __________________ serzsite.com.ar "All the drugs in this world won\'t save you from yourself"

05-03-2005	#8 (permalink)
lakerdonald Linux Guru Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: St. Petersburg, FL Posts: 5,039	I wish I was wrong though. haha __________________ the lost art of found sound