Directory Listings

I know there MUST be an easier way to do this. Using WinXP Pro, is there any way to get a text listing of all of the files in a directory? (I spent an hour putzing with the DOS method, and got no where but frustrated.)

Dagney

How about:<blockquote>dir > foo.txt</blockquote>
Who's the man?

remembered how to chdir, it worked.....

I admit...yer one of da men - Can't say you're DA man, Brian may feel left out *G*

Thanks!

Dagney

No problem. :)

Wait.. you spent an hour in DOS without knowing 'cd'?

I wsa just thinking the same thing. Were you counting how many times the cursor blinked?

i tried "ls -la" in dos about 30 times the other day before realizing what a moron i am.

~james

I have a directory called "aliases" on my C: drive, which is full of batch files and teeny executables that mimic most basic UNIX commands. Just for such an emergency.

Of course, it screws me over when I go to work on someone _else's_ computer, and I spend half an hour muttering "Why aren't cat, echo and less working?"

Well, on Windows I try to use Cygwin where I can. On Linux, I have 'clear' symlinked to 'cls', because before the symlink, there was untold frustration and loud cursing everytime I typed the wrong one. :)

I spend half an hour practicing my DOS daily. Just as my mother told me concerning the piano, it may come in useful someday.

I'm still waiting.

Originally posted by juju
Wait.. you spent an hour in DOS without knowing 'cd'?

No, actually, I know my CD (chdir) thanks *G*

I was having a completely dense moment and could not figure out what I was doing that would keep me from changing directories. (That took about 2 minutes....) it was after that, that I spent futzing around with how to write that sillly text file.