ls is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file

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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    cmd opened regularly not as an admin   I ve recently downloaded anaconda for python During the installation process  there was a time when I allowed to add a PATH which was not recommended   ls  used to work well be  Here are the paths

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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

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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

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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

[batch-file] 'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

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