ls (ie lower case LS)
In DOS: dir
If there are many files in the directory, type, "dir/p/o" ...this will stop the listing when the page fills up and list them in alphabetical order... press any key to continue to the next page of listed files.
If you're only interested in the name of the files (not the date/size etc.) you can add /B
CD / && ls -R
this should do the trick
CD / moves to the uppermost directory
&& runs the following command after the preceding command is finished
ls - R lists all files recursively (looks into the directories)
In Unix-like and some other operating systems, find is a command-line utility that searches through one or more directory trees of a file system, locates files based on some user-specified criteria and applies a user-specified action on each matched file. The possible search criteria include a pattern to match against the file name or a time range to match against the modification time or access time of the file. By default, find returns a list of all files below the current working directory.
It depends on the OS you're using.
In Linux (and most variants) there are a few
#ls - it has a few options prefixed with a dash. Example: #ls -l
#tree lists out the files and sub folders/files
See these pages in them by typing in 'man tree' and 'man ls'
The ls command will list the files and directories in linux.
type dir in dos
c:\dir
menu
dir
The command in a terminal is: ls (short for List). This will list the files in the current directory. Whilst in the Home directory, to list the files in a different directory, for instance Videos, use: ls Videos.
DIR
ls | sort -r Use ls command to list all files, in the present directory. Then pipe '|' the output of the ls command to sort -r. The -r option will reverse the sort.
dir Lists all files and directories in the directory that you are currently in. dir /ad List only the directories in the current directory. If you need to move into one of the directories listed use the CD command. dir /s Lists the files in the directory that you are in and all sub directories after that directory, if you are at root "C:\>" and type this command this will list to you every file and directory on the C: drive of the computer. dir /p If the directory has a lot of files and you cannot read all the files as they scroll by, you can use this command and it will display all files one page at a time. dir /w If you don't need the info on the date / time and other information on the files, you can use this command to list just the files and directories going horizontally, taking as little as space needed. dir /s /w /p This would list all the files and directories in the current directory and the sub directories after that, in wide format and one page at a time. dir /on List the files in alphabetical order by the names of the files. dir /o-n List the files in reverse alphabetical order by the names of the files. dir \ /s |find "i" |more A nice command to list all directories on the hard drive, one screen page at a time, and see the number of files in each directory and the amount of space each occupies. dir > myfile.txt Takes the output of dir and re-routes it to the file myfile.txt instead of outputting it to the screen.
rm -rv /path/to/directory
All you need is the PWD(Print Working Directory) command, this will list your current directory absolute path All you need is the PWD(Print Working Directory) command, this will list your current directory absolute path
Under M$ windows, "dir". Under *nix, "ls". "ls -al" will list ALL files and subdirectories (even the hidden ones which start with a '.' in a long format which is easier to read and tells you more information about the files).
Recursively removes all files from the directory and all under it.
The easiest way is to use the 'cp' command. Put the name of all the files in the 'cp' command line and use another directory as the target; all the files will be copied to the new directory. Note: you may need to use the -r (recursive) copy option if you have subdirectories in the source directory.
for i in * do if [ -d $i ]; then echo $i directory >> /tmp/directories fi done
To list all the files in a directory you would use the following: $handle = opendir('/path/to/folder'); while(($file = readdir($handle)) !== false){ // do things with files // you will want to filter out things like ., .., and .htaccess echo $file; } Also, to return a list of all the files in a directory, especially with wildcards, use something such as: $file_array = glob("*"); $files = implode("\n", $file_array); echo $files; will give you a list of all the files directly.
"Asterix is not a command.. Its a comic character.." Actually asterix is also a so called wildcard character in MS-DOS. It replaces a whole series of characters related to file name, extension or both. For example, if you want to delete all files named "list" from a current directory (no matter what type those files are) use the following command: del list.* In case you want to delete all files with .txt extension from the current directory, use: del *.txt Or if you want to delete all files in the directory no matter what type they are or what they were called, use: del *