title: Cygwin ls command not found
body: <p>This is a question that I self-answered on my tech blog where I keep the tech-tips which I need to give to myself from time to time, so I decided to move it over here instead. The original blog post is here: <a href="http://thehacklist.blogspot.com/2009/04/cygwin-ls-command-not-found.html" rel="noreferrer">http://thehacklist.blogspot.com/2009/04/cygwin-ls-command-not-found.html</a></p>
  
  <p>If you are a linux enthusiast and really miss those greps and sed/awks on the windows box, you've probably installed <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/" rel="noreferrer">cygwin</a>. You tried running it either by double-clicking the cygwin icon on your desktop or the <code>cygwin.bat</code> file in your <code>C:\cygwin</code> directory and got the <code>bash-3.X$</code> prompt. However, although the <code>pwd</code> or <code>cd</code> commands work, if you try <code>ls</code>, it says:<code>ls: command not found</code>.</p>