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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get list of files and folders to table format in CMD
I have read this thread, which helped, but doesn't answer my specific question. I'm hoping someone can help.
I am trying to export a CSV file with TWO COLUMNS of data. Column 1 is the actual filename (with extension), and Column 2 would be the…
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What device does the cmd command 'dir' use?
Sorry for the unclear question!
The command prompt command 'dir' lists all files and directories in a directory, as you probably know.
I am reading "Subverting the Windows Kernel: Rootkits" at the moment.
One example of code in the book hides TCP…
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Python application directory strucuture (Linux)
What is the best practice to structure the python application when installed to the system as a rpm/deb package?
The app code is mostly written in Python, and there are some shell scripts, configuration files and log files.
I was thinking to have…
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How to use the list files in a given directory via batch file without showing the full path?
I have searched for this everywhere so I hope it has not already been asked, but I have a batch file where the user can write his / her own 'scripts' if you will. When the batch file is ran for the first time it will make a directory under…
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Rename more than one directory at once
I have bunch of directories such as…
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List files with MATLAB which are not .m files
I can list all .m files in the current directory with this code: dir(fullfile('.', '*.m')).
But how to change the regular expression that only files will be listed which have not the ending .m (files without "ending" should be included as…
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use DIR command output in batch
I use command :
dir D:\ /b /A:D-H
and output is for example:
Photos
Wallpapers
My Personal Data
and.. I want to set varialeble on this folders as:
set SOMEFOLDER=folder1
set SOMEFOLDER2=folder2
and ect..
How can I do this?
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Limit shown directories in PHP
How can I show a folder's limit in a directory using PHP? The code below shows all folders but I only want to see 10 folders.
function folderlist() {
$startdir = './';
$ignoredDirectory[] = '.';
$ignoredDirectory[] = '..';
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Windows Batch File to count all files and subdirectories but not list
I'm need to essentially get the summary of "DIR/s" but without listing. I want to be able to see the number of files/folders/bytes used and bytes available - and pipe all that to a file?
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DIR /p pausing not working...?
I am having a problem. I need my code to list all the text files in a big directory and pause at each full screen. I set it up so that users will be able to input the number that is listed beside every txt file in the list but the /p parameter…
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How to know with Ruby if a path is outside another?
I'm building a little script and I'd need to know some way of testing if a path (a string for example) is outside another path (another string). For example:
/some/path and /some/path/file.rb would return false because file.rb is inside /some/path…
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Testing directory suing S_ISDIR,But it doesn't work
I'm studying c programming in linux,and I wrote this to output information about the files and directories like the standard tool "ls" with "-l",everything works fine except the macro S_ISDIR,Here is my code.
Additionally,my os is mint 14…
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How do I delete directories for a specific time period (say older than one month) using dos command?
I am trying to delete directories older than one month from a batch file.
I am able to list directory names using:
dir D:* /A:D-H
But not sure how can I delete them for a specific time.
Can somebody help me with this?
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Wicket - Create new folder per session
I am using apache wicket 1.5 and when a new session is initialized I want to create a new temp folder:
Example:
Session_1_connect -> create_temp_1
Session_1_disconnect -> delete_temp_1
A new user logs in:
Session_2_connect ->…
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