Is there any command in Unix, other than:ls, to list the
files in a directory?
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Answer / nik
You can use find command with - type f. It will print all
the files in the current dir recursively.
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Answer / chetan
Hi,
echo *.* will list out all the files in a directory.
( all files are assumed to be having some extension)
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Answer / ravi
you can use the file command, eg file *. Actually file
command is used to display type of the file given as argument.
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Answer / ashish
echo * simply.it lists files and directories in pwd. no hidden files r displayed
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Answer / pritish
echo * | tr " " "\n"
this will display all the files in the current directory
sequentially...
you can also use dir command.
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Answer / kishore devkate
Hi Yankee,
There are so many commands to display the files in the
present working directory without using ls command, find
the below commands,
echo *
dir
du -sk *
....etc
but we have to think logical how to view the file without
using ls.
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