Re: Missing ls, mkdir and stuff

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:14:07AM -0500, Stephen Patterson wrote:
> I'd have thought that ls, mkdir and a few other commands are so essential to the basic running of cygwin that they would be in some always-installed base package.

They _are_ in the base distro. If you have installed via `setup.exe'
from http://cygwin.com and if you install everything you would have
all these tools.

Corinna

> 
> ------Original Message------
> From: "Kevin Wright" <kevin@wright.org>
> To: "Marcin Orlowski" <carlos@amiga.com.pl>
> Sent: February 17, 2001 9:00:37 PM GMT
> Subject: RE: Missing ls, mkdir and stuff
> 
> 
> Marcin,
> 
> You need to install fileutils to get ls, and mkdir. 
> 
> --Kevin
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Marcin Orlowski
> > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 1:18 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Missing ls, mkdir and stuff
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just installed Cygwin (the latest I suppose ;-) and noticed
> > that I lack ls, mkdir and other basic tools. I wonder if I
> > accidentally missed THE archive (I've not installed all the
> > packages) or that's usual? Anyway, the question is: where
> > are ls, mkdir? What to grab to have them installed?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > --
> >  Do ble Spce - the bes  way to cr nch yo r hard di k
> > 
> >  Marcin                              http://wfmh.org.pl/~carlos/
> >                                        mailto:carlos@wfmh.org.pl
> > 
> > 
> > 
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