ls command is not working in terminal

m-ehmad wrote:

simple go to home directory press command + shift + dot delete .zshrc file then press again command + shift + dot and check your terminal thanks.. if you want to add flutter path try to to add correct path thanks.

Better to rename the file so it is not accessed. There may be customizations in that file which may be critical for the user so deleting the file will cause the user to lose those customizations since most people won't know what these files contain even if the user has seen them and made the custom edits themselves. So the user will be unable to rebuild those customizations.

I suggest you edit the export PATH in your ~..zshrc:

export PATH=".:$HOME/Documents/flutterDev/sdk/flutter/bin:${PATH}"

The leading dot means the current directory so you don't have to reference things in a given folder via ./ and to make this active in the current Terminal session:

source ~/.zshrc



Your zsh command path / PATH is incorrect, as previous replies have correctly stated.

To get ls to work, you will need to specify the full path (until you get path / PATH fixed):

$ whereis ls
ls: /bin/ls /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1
$ whereis whereis
whereis: /usr/bin/whereis /usr/share/man/man1/whereis.1
$ /bin/ls xyzzy
ls: xyzzy: No such file or directory
$ 

In the above, I have a valid path / PATH in my session, meaning that I can get at ls and whereis without specifying the full path. But the last command of that sequence is is invoked with the full path. Which will work, even with a corrupted path / PATH setting. Since I have no xyzzy file in the local directory, the ls command shows an ls error, as expected here. whereis (located in /usr/bin/whereis, as shown in the output above) can be invoked the same way, and can help you find other paths to other commands. This full path specification of the shell commands will allow you to get back to a working path / PATH declaration, too.

What’s this path / PATH I’m referencing? A quick intro to the zsh path array and to PATH:

… https://superuser.com/a/598924

There are various introductions to the command line:

… https://academind.com/tutorials/terminal-zsh-basics

The manual (dense, entirely correct, but not a great intro) is posted in various places:

… https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/

I’ve found the following zsh reference card very handy:

… https://www.bash2zsh.com/zsh_refcard/refcard.pdf

Your PATH is totally corrupted

"$/Users/alisindhi/Documents/flutterDev/sdk/flutter/bin"

There is a leading $ in the flutter/bin path that is going make even the flutter/bin directory unaccessible.

You do not have the standard

• /usr/bin
• /bin
• /usr/sbin
• /sbin

That most users get.

This most likely means that somewhere along the way in your shell initialization files, PATH was messed up.

Look for any files in your $HOME directory that start with .z* and examine them for PATH modifications.

You can use full path names to access commands such as /usr/bin/vim, /usr/bin/grep, /bin/ls, /bin/mv, etc...

What does

echo “$PATH” | cat -vte

say?

The cat -vte will show any spaces, tabs, non-printable characters, and put a $ as the last character to show if there are trailing spaces.

simple go to home directory press command + shift + dot delete .zshrc file then press again command + shift + dot and check your terminal thanks.. if you want to add flutter path try to to add correct path thanks.

export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH"

you could paste this command in your terminal

that was fine to me