cygwin bash script suddenly can't find ls, grep

[Ken Brown]

On 10/11/2014 8:04 PM, LMH wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been working on a bash script and suddenly I started getting an
> error that ls could not be found,
>
> ./remove_rows.sh: line 27: ls: command not found
>
> I can run ls from the command line just fine. There is also an ls
> command before line 27 that runs fine. This is the part of the script
> that is causing problems (line numbers are included).
>
> 24 PATH=$(ls -d './'$SET'/'$FOLD'/'$FOLD'_anneal/'$PARAM_SET'/'$AN_SET)
> 25 echo $PATH
> 26
> 27 FILE_LIST=($(ls $PATH'/'*'out.txt'))
> 28 echo ${FILE_LIST[@]}
>
> The echo $PATH command gives the correct output, but I get the error on
> line 27. I have tried without the double parentheses, which wouldn't
> give the result I want,
>
> FILE_LIST=$(ls $PATH'/'*'out.txt')
>
> but this gives the same error.
>
> After this problem happened, I updated cygwin and restarted, but the
> issue persists. Is there something wrong with my cygwin install? If
> there happens to be some problem with my bash, please let me know, but
> this is pretty simple stuff and I just can't see why ls would be found
> at line 24 but not line 27.

You've changed PATH in line 24.  Is 'ls' still in it?

Ken


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