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| Other names | DIR |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, VMS Software Inc |
| Operating system | OpenVMS |
| Platform | VAX, Alpha, Itanium, x86-64 |
| Type | Command |
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.
$ 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.In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, chmod is the command and system call used to change the access permissions and the special mode flags of file system objects. Collectively these were originally called its modes, and the name chmod was chosen as an abbreviation of change mode.
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