In computer software, specifically the command line interface of the OpenVMS operating system, the DIRECTORY command (often abbreviated as DIR) is used to list the files inside a directory. 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. $ 

See also

• Ls
• Dir (DOS command)