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At any point in time while working on the command line, you are always inside a directory. There may be times when you'd want to list information about all files and subdirectories within a directory. This is where the dir command helps. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command as well as the features it provides.
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By: Pete
On my 16.04 system, dir appears to be a hardlink to ls (el-es).
Nothing to see here.
By: john
Isn't this just the 'ls' command that's aliased? As far as I know, linux does not have a built-in or external 'dir' command.
By: kenneth Hammons
Can you make the linux dir command display only files with certain extension like you can in DOS?
ie: dir *.bin
By: Moin Shaikh
I want to know Why there is .. Directory inside / partition ?