Hi all,

I've got and old HP-UX 10.20. If i do un 'ls' i cannot see anything. If i
run 'find .' I see files of current dir.

There's some mistake??

Thanks
Ste

Ste <stefano@#nospamme#3000.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got and old HP-UX 10.20. If i do un 'ls' i cannot see anything. If i
> run 'find .' I see files of current dir.
>
> There's some mistake??
>
> Thanks
> Ste

Perhaps someone aliased 'ls' to some other command.

Instead try:

/usr/bin/ls

or/and

echo *

If these work, then do a 'set' command and see if 'ls' is aliased. If
so, check the startup files of the shell to see where it is aliased and
change/delete that.

Frank Slootweg wrote:

> do a 'set' command and see if 'ls' is aliased.

"type" quite portably reveals both aliases and functions
(in contrast to "set")

Sven Mascheck <cshh.l.mascheck@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg wrote:
>
> > do a 'set' command and see if 'ls' is aliased.
>
> "type" quite portably reveals both aliases and functions
> (in contrast to "set")

'Yup'. I probably had a memory lapse, because "set" does not seem to
list aliases at all, at least not in a bash shell (no longer have
access to HP-UX) and the (HP-UX) manpages does not say it does.

However "type" by itself will not list aliases, you need to specify an
argument, i.e. for example "type ls".

OTOH, "alias" (Duh, Slootweg! :-)), by itself, will list aliases, so
my sentence *should* have been:

"do an 'alias' command and see if 'ls' is aliased."

Moral: Sometimes things *really* are simple, 'even' on UNIX! :-)