Working in Linux/Unix platform, if any command dose not work, say # ls reports

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Working in Linux/Unix platform, if any command dose not
work, say # ls reports as command not found.
what to do?

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Working in Linux/Unix platform, if any command dose not work, say # ls reports as command not foun..

Answer / bc

Check whether PATH variable as got the entry /bin

It should be something like this
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[root@bc ~]# echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin
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Working in Linux/Unix platform, if any command dose not work, say # ls reports as command not foun..

Answer / senthil

Check the PATH first

By echo $PATH

2.See the binary is there in that PATH

if not there please install binary

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Working in Linux/Unix platform, if any command dose not work, say # ls reports as command not foun..

Answer / cp

Need to check the path first body ....

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Working in Linux/Unix platform, if any command dose not work, say # ls reports as command not foun..

Answer / vinod thakur

all right as discussed above.but if PATH varible is set
properly and then we facing same problem then we hav to
check whether we hav losted sbin or bin if we have losted
bin we can recover it as whole but if sbin then up to
limited level we can recover it ..

VINOD THAKUR

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Working in Linux/Unix platform, if any command dose not work, say # ls reports as command not foun..

Answer / naresh

reinstall that shell

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