Abbreviation for a directory, a virtual container within a digital file system.
Also a command equivalent to ls in Unix and found in operating systems such as DOS, VMS, and MS Windows.
Questions tagged [dir]
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How to append path and filename to output
Background
I am searching a large directory for files with certian strings of characters in their names. I only want to know if the files exsist in said directory.
Problem Description
Right now I am inputing the following code into windows 7 cmd…
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Python listing directory without errors
I recently started making a program for a friend and when I try to make a directory lister with user input I cant figure out how to handle the error.
Directory Example
Users
Prefrences
Memos
How do I make it so that is shows an error like 'Invalid…
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PHP How to display "Text Empty" if all files in directory are empty?
Assume in my directory "my_dir/" contains files below:
file1.php
file2.php
file3.php
...
And assume each files is not empty..
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php list indents or doesnt link
I am using this code to list all the files in a Dir:
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Batch Ftp: How do I set the local download directory dynamically?
What i'm trying to do is this.
1) Create a Directory with the date as its name.
2)Download Contents of a Folder on a server into the directory that's just been made.
This is what i've done so far:
execute.bat:
@echo off
for /f "tokens=1* delims="…
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Recursive directory link building
After a little help I have this recursive function that does its job well, however I need it to create me a link to files.
At the moment the function can only store $dir/$file.php and I need it to create the full path as it loops.
function…
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How to hide . and .. folders in C?
I'm trying to list all folders and all files of a folder with the language C.
This is the following code:
#include
#include
#include
#include
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
struct dirent…
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Multiple commands in a batch file result in one line
How can i write batch file that stores result in a file in just one line?
I want these 3 commands to write in new file ex. txt.txt in first line.
dir /b *.xml > txt.txt
echo 2 2 >> txt.txt
dir >> txt.txt
I want result to be in txt.txt file like…
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Excel \ OpenOffice Calc Dir function does not iterate thru files
My VBA-Code only returns the first file of the the directory while it should return at least 3 files, does anyone have a clue whats going on here?
FolderName = Environ("UserProfile") + "\"
FilePath = FolderName & "Invoice." &…
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Batch: Concatinated filesnames into a CSV-File
I want all filesnames of the files in a folder and subfolders in a csv-file. For that I wrote a batchscript which works just fine:
set "Folder=N:\myFolder\mySubFolder\mySubSubFolder"
dir /b "%Folder%">"Z:\worx\filenames.csv"
The content of…
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Windows CLI: Find file with dir /s/b in a specific folder
I'm trying to locate a file and get the whole path of it. For this I wanted to execute the command:
dir "install.log" /s/b
The problem is, the command only searches inside the current directory and subfolders, but I want to look through the whole…
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PHP - Make Directory Code Not Working
I am having a problem with some PHP code and I cannot seem to understand why it isn't working.
So, to cut a long story short I'm creating a social network site and users are allowed to upload their own profile picture. To disallow other people to be…
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Regarding dir()
Initially I was trying to find dir(re) but realized I had quotes.
Edit for clarity:
Wouldn't "re" be a string? So dir("re") == dir(string)? The output isn't the same. That is essentially what I am wondering.
Edit for comments:
I might misunderstand…
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Characters are printed instead of listing dir
I'm trying to list the files in my directory. The directory is /home/user/Desktop/Test/
Within Test, there are 3 folders, a,b,c
and within each of the folders a,b,c there are 10 gz files numbered in order 1-10
import…
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Converting multiple gz file within subdirectories into csv
I have many subdirectories in my main directory and would like to write a script to unzip and convert all the files within it. If possible, I would also like to combine all the CSV within a single directory into a single CSV. But more importantly, I…
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