directory (OpenVMS command)
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| developer = Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, VMS Software Inc
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| operating system = OpenVMS
| platform = VAX, Alpha, Itanium, x86-64
| genre = Command
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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.[https://www.itec.suny.edu/scsys/vms/OVMSDOC073/v73/6489/6489pro_005.html OpenVMS User's Manual]{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} It is analogous to the DOS dir and Unix ls commands.
Sample output
$ 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.