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| − | Under FreeBSD and other unix-like OSes, the equivalent command is [[ls]]. | + | '''DIR''' is a DOS command for listing files. Under FreeBSD and other unix-like OSes, the equivalent command is [[ls]]. |
[[ls]] is best combined with [[grep]] if you plan on doing any filtering: '''dir *.txt''' is equivalent to '''ls | grep .txt''', and '''dir boogy*.*''' is equivalent to '''ls | grep boogy'''. | [[ls]] is best combined with [[grep]] if you plan on doing any filtering: '''dir *.txt''' is equivalent to '''ls | grep .txt''', and '''dir boogy*.*''' is equivalent to '''ls | grep boogy'''. | ||
Latest revision as of 18:59, 19 June 2006
DIR is a DOS command for listing files. Under FreeBSD and other unix-like OSes, the equivalent command is ls.
ls is best combined with grep if you plan on doing any filtering: dir *.txt is equivalent to ls | grep .txt, and dir boogy*.* is equivalent to ls | grep boogy.
Note that in the second example, ls | grep boogy is actually directly equivalent to dir *boogy*.*, not just dir boogy*.*. If you really want to only find instances in which "boogy" is the very beginning of the filename, you'll need to delve into using grep with regular expressions.
