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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Windows batch compair two path directories and write out the difference
I want to parse a directory and when new files show up it shoud be listed in a queue for a other batch.
I tried it like that:
@echo off
:START
set ftpdir=Z:\FTP\home\
set xdir=Z:\NewDir\
set vtree=v.txt
set vtreecomp=vcomp.txt
if not exist %vtree%…
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CMD How to put DIR's result in variable?
What I tried to do is put dir in "Answer" variable. The variable's result have nothing inside it. What did I do wrong?
@echo off
set /p name=Program name:
echo %name%
set Answer=dir /s /a /b C:\%name%
echo %Answer%
Pause
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Objective-C equivalent of the Python dir(someObject) function?
Coming from Python I'm trying to learn Objective-C. When I have an object in Python I can always easily do a dir(myObject) to see what methods it has. So I wonder, what is the equivalent command in Objective-C?
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Can't rename all files in a directory
I need to rename all files to 'DSC0 + num', so the final name of a file should be (for example) 'DSC02015'
Attempted code:
import os
path = "C:\\images"
num = 2000
i=0
files = os.listdir(path)
for x in files:
old = files[i]
new = 'DSC0%d'…
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Matlab: Include a part of the path to file when using dir command
I'm trying to get a path to all the jpeg files in a directory including 'fig'. This code below gets all the jpeg files in the directory, however does not exclude any 'rft' labeled files.
base_directory = '/home/user/data/';
directories =…
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How to Keep Score Counter
So I have my word batch game I'm working on in Windows 7. I'm going to implement a scoring system into it but I first must know how to actually do one. So after an easy level is completed I want it to add 25 points to a point counter. Then at a…
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Python dir() function with regex filtering options
dir() returns a list of all the names, comprising the attributes of the given object and of attributes reachable from it
But, I want the ability to regex filter the results of dir() in a simple manner, similar to the unix grep tool
>>>…
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Delete "old" backups in directory according to file timestamps
SOLVED (forgot it was an associative array):
foreach($list_s as $file => $timestamp) {
echo $file;
unlink($dir_files . $file);
unlink($dir_sql . $file);
}
I have a backup area and I want every time the user visits it for it to run a…
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Listing certain extensions in PHP Dir List
Have the following to provide a dir list in an array
for($index=0; $index < $indexCount; $index++) {
if (substr("$dirArray[$index]", 0, 1) != ".") { // don't list hidden files
echo "
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Simple wildcard use
EDIT: I have just changed the if to an if else
IF "%CD:~1%"==":\" (
set FIR=%CD:~0,2%
) ELSE (
set FIR=%CD%
)
Trying to use a wildcard to detect if a batch file is on the root directory (As root causes there to be a backslash at the end of…
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Get the system root dirs?
I know there a lot of path API's in python, but I am looking for an API that will give me the very root directories of the system the script is executing in. Not root directories of the script itself but the actual system.
So, for a standard…
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How do I look at dir(list) or dir(str) in cgi script? (python 3)
In python (IDLE) itself, I know if I type dir(list), I get a list of the properties of list as seen below:
>>> dir(list)
['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__',…
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ls vs. dir in cygwin/uwin in Windows 7
I was trying to process a directory of over 10000 files using ksh in Cygwin in Windows 7 and have found that it can take well over a minute before processing can begin because I start by doing an
ls -r | while read....
I can get all the files in a…
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Dir /b with "/" as last character when a folder
I use
dir /b > test.txt
in order to get a list of all files and folders in my current directory.
Is there a way to have :
normal filename if it is a file, example blabla.txt
"/" at the end if it is a folder, example myfolder\
?
Thanks.
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Error 53 when checking if file exists
I am using the following code to check if a file exists:
If Len(Dir$(strFile)) > 0 Then
This worked fine until today.
In some cases I get the following error:
The error points to the line of code above.
I know the file doesn't exist, but I don't…
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