On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 20:49 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > The DOS based dir<ectory> command as it was ported to Linux does not do > this. > Yes it does. dir -a does more or less the same as ls -a. In fact it accepts most (all?) of the same options as ls, though some of the defaults may differ, e.g. on my Fedora system 'dir' doesn't colour directory entries while 'ls' does, but 'dir --color' gives identical output to 'ls'. Martin
