ls doesn't work in mobaxterm local terminal

Question

I'm having a strange issue running mobaxterm v20.2 on Windows 10:

I am unable to use ls to see the contents of the local directory. For example, in this screenshot, the output of ls is empty, but the following cd works fine.

which ls also returns empty output. I do not have this error when I ssh from mobaxterm onto a remote machine.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what changed, but I reinstalled mobaxterm and ls seems to work again.