Directory (OpenVMS command)

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DIRECTORY
Other namesDIR
Developer(s)Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, VMS Software Inc
Operating systemOpenVMS
PlatformVAX, Alpha, Itanium, x86-64
TypeCommand

In computer software, specifically the DCL command-line interface of the OpenVMS operating system, the DIRECTORY command (often abbreviated as DIR) is used to list the files inside a directory.[1] It is analogous to the DOS dir and Unix ls commands.

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$ dir   Directory DISK$USER:[EBROCKLESBY.DICT.DICTD-1_8_0]  ANNOUNCE.;1         CHANGELOG.;1        CLIENTPARSE.Y;1     CLIENTSCAN.L;1      CODES.H;1           CONFIG.GUESS;1      CONFIG.H_IN;1       CONFIG.SUB;1        CONFIGURE.;1        CONFIGURE.IN;1      COPYING.;1          DAEMON.C;1          DATA.C;1            DECL.H;1            DICT.1;1            DICT.C;1            DICT.H;1            DICTD.8;1           DICTD.C;1           DICTD.CONF;1        DICTD.H;1           DICTFMT.1;1         DICTFMT.C;1          DICTFMT_INDEX2SUFFIX.;1                 DICTFMT_PLUGIN.;1   DICTP.H;1           DICTZIP.1;1         DICTZIP.C;1         DICTZIP.H;1         DOC.DIR;1           EXAMPLE.CONF;1      EXAMPLE.DICTRC;1    EXAMPLE.SITE;1      EXAMPLE2.CONF;1     EXAMPLE3.CONF;1     INDEX.C;1           INITSCRIPT.;1       INSTALL-SH.;1       INSTALL.;1          LIBMAA.DIR;1        MAKEFILE.;2         MAKEFILE.CONF;1     MAKEFILE.IN;2       MD5.C;1             MD5.H;1             NET.C;1             NET.H;1             PLUGIN.H;1          README.;1           REGEX.DIR;1         SERVPARSE.Y;1       SERVSCAN.L;1        TODO.;1             UTF8_UCS4.C;1       UTF8_UCS4.H;1       ZLIB.DIR;1            Total of 56 files. 

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