Hello guys so I was trying to create a script that lists all files in the current directory, the parent of the working directory, and the /boot directory
here is what I tried
#!/bin/bash
ls -la ls -la ../ ls -la /boot
I have already made the file executable. The problem comes in when I run it.
The error states;
ls: cannot access 'ls': No such file or directory
What could I be doing wrong?
>Solution :
The problem is that ls -la ls tells the ls command to look for a file or directory named ls, which doesn’t exist.
If you want multiple commands on one line, they must be separated with a semicolon (;).
ls -la; ls -la ../; ls -la /boot
If you split the commands onto multiple lines, the semicolon becomes optional:
ls -la
ls -la ../
ls -la /boot
Or you can just pass multiple directories to ls like so:
ls -la . ../ /boot