'ls' command problem

Hi I am using MATLAB 7.12.0 (R2011a) on linux. Whenever I type the 'ls' command, matlab hangs and the only way out of it is to kill it. Does anyone know the solution for this?

[Andrew Newell]

You should probably contact Mathworks Support about this.

[Dr. Seis]

Does the same thing happen if you use the "dir" command instead?

Answer 1

[Balachander Narasimhan]

thanks for the responses. dir does work. but by instinct, I keep typing the ls command and it hangs. is there a way to disable it?

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

On Linux, ls without any arguments will invoke

unix('ls')

Do you get the same response if you try that directly? How about if you were to command

!ls

What does

!which ls

report ?

[Balachander Narasimhan]

thanks for the response. all these commands. just give me the bash prompt. 'which ls' at the prompt gives /bin/ls. Btw, I have two versions of matlab and both have this issue. the versions are R2008a and R2011a