Lists the contents of a directory

Examples:

• dir

  Lists the files and folders in the current folder, excluding hidden files and system files; uses a different manner of listing if DIRCMD variable is non-empty and contains switches for dir.

• dir D:

• dir /b C:\\Users

• dir /s

  Lists the contents of the directory and all sub-directories recursively.

• dir /s /b

  Lists the contents of the directory and all sub-directories recursively, one file per line, displaying complete path for each listed file or directory.

• dir *.txt

  Lists all files with .txt extension.

• dir /a

  Includes hidden files and system files in the listing.

• dir /ah

  Lists hidden files only.

• dir /ad

  Lists directories only. Other letters after /A include S, I, R, A and L.

• dir /ahd

  Lists hidden directories only.

• dir /a-d

  Lists files only, omitting directories.

• dir /a-d-h

  Lists non-hidden files only, omitting directories.

• dir /od

  Orders the files and folders by the date of last modification. Other letters after /O include N (by name), E (by extension), S (by size), and G (folders first)

• dir /o-s

  Orders the files by the size descending; the impact on folder order is unclear.

• dir /-c /o-s /a-d

  Lists files ordered by size descending, omitting the thousands separator via /-C, excluding folders.

• dir /s /b /od

  Lists the contents of the directory and all sub-directories recursively, ordering the files in each directory by the date of last modification. The ordering only happens per directory; the complete set of files so found is not ordered as a whole.

• dir /a /s

  Lists files recursively including hidden files and system files. Can be used to find out the disk usage (directory size), by considering the final lines of the output.

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