Talk:dir (command)

Removed Unix statement

I've removed the statement "In Unix, dir is a symbolic link to or an alias for the ls command.", although it may well be a symbolic link or shell alias, there is no requirement or standard that dictates that. There is no mention whatsoever of a `dir` utitlity in the single unix specification, and there is no dir symlink or alias in the profile of some systems I have checked, including NetBSD and HP-UX. The GNU ls package includes a `dir` command, but this is a hardlink to gnu ls, which behaves differently when called as dir. -- taviso 15:51, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I looked up this article when, after reading the dir manpage, I suspected dir is an "alias" of ls in a special way, so this information is actually what I hoped to learn from the article, and I put it back into the article in some form. --Uwe Lück (talk) 08:02, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Title

shouldn't the title of the page be DIR (all caps) ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.219.31.251 (talk • contribs) 00:07, 10 February 2006

explanation section

Much of the explanation section looks like it was copied directly from Windows XP help. It is correct only for Windows NT, not MS-DOS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.111.72.167 (talk • contribs) 04:00, 27 September 2006

Parameters

Should there not be a list of parameters for the command? This is the info I was looking for. All I found was the "Most commonly used parameters" in the article List of DOS commands. Paalsteinhard (talk) 23:25, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Rt-11/RSX-11/OpenVMS

The same command exists also in RT-11 and RSX-11 command interface. The same can be said about various other commands (assign, copy, format etc).--213.141.142.41 16:13, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

dir command exists also in Linux. Check this link: [[1]] --79.130.170.115 (talk) 02:26, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

See #Removed Unix statement above. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 11:05, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Output on Windows 7

I'm trying the dir /w command on Win7, with & without the space, & it's not working for me at all. Here's how it looks:

C:\Users\Smith>dir /w
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 48AD-3B31

 Directory of C:\Users\Smith

[.]
[..]
[.matplotlib]
[.mnemosyne]
[Calibre Library]
chkdsk
[Contacts]
[Desktop]
[Documents]
[Downloads]
[Dropbox]
[dwhelper]
[Favorites]
g2mdlhlpx.exe
[Games]
[Links]
[Pictures]
[Saved Games]
[Searches]
[Tracing]
US and China engage in cyber war games _ Technology _ guardian.co.uk.pdf
UTT Online Application Ack.pdf
UTT Online Application Summary.pdf
               5 File(s)        244,602 bytes
              18 Dir(s)  75,778,936,832 bytes free

MonoTrouble (talk) 20:42, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

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