[MSFT]

Hello!

I was wondering if there's a Terminal equivalent of Windows' cmd > dir command. In addition, I was wondering if it was possible to print the results of the directory to a .txt file.

[chucker]

Originally Posted by MSFT Hello! I was wondering if there's a Terminal equivalent of Windows' cmd > dir command.

ls

ls -l for a long list

ls -R for recursive

ls -t for sorting by time
or ls -S by size
or ls -Sr for size, reverse

etc.

Try 'man help' for a whole lot of info to swallow. As another example, ls -G colorizes the output.

In addition, I was wondering if it was possible to print the results of the directory to a .txt file.

Sure, just append > filename, just like in DOS.

E.g., (cd ~; ls -lR > foo.txt) creates a file foo.txt in your home directory with all subdirectories.

[MSFT]

Hooray! Many thanks for your help!

[Yonzie]

a related command that may be interesting to you is du, short for Disk Usage.
Example output:

Ran-chan:~ yonzie$ du -sch * 75G	Desktop 30M	Documents372K	Downloads1,3G	Library  0B	Movies6,8G	Music 11G	Pictures  0B	Public 40K	Sites 20K	hetland.html4,0K	index.php 94G	total

Get more information in the manual by typing "man du".