List directory to file

By default, the dir command lists the files and directories for the current directory. In the example below, we're in the Windows directory, so only files and directories in the Windows directory are shown.

You can list files that only meet certain criteria using wildcards in the dir command. Below are a few additional examples of the dir command with wildcards. In the example above, only files with a file extension of.

In the example above, only files that begin with the letter "a" are displayed. See our wildcard definition for further information about this term and more examples. Like the Windows command line, Windows PowerShell can use the dir command to list files in the current directory. PowerShell can also use the ls and gci commands to list files in a different format.

To list files in a Linux or Unix command line, use the ls command, as shown below. With the help of this command, we can find the properties of file such as file size, permissions, modified date, etc. This command is used for searching text files using regular expressions. To list the contents of the directory using grep command run the following command.

This command displays only the contents of the directory just down one level which means it cannot display other subdirectories and its contents and also hidden files.

The getfacl and setfacl are two of the mostt important and useful commands every system administrator should know to set the Access Control Lists of the files and directories. To display the files and directories in the current working directory, just run the following command. The key features of this command is that it not only lists the contents of the directory but also other details such as.

This is another method to list the contents of the directory. Use the following command shown below. In addition to viewing and editing files, vim editor can also be used for listing files and directories. We already know that everything is considered as a file in Linux. This implies that a directory is also a file which contains some list of files and subdirectories. To list the files and directories in the current working directory using vim editor, run the command shown below.

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