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The same can be said of Linux – with some notable exceptions.

In Linux, dir won’t fully display the contents of directories, and doesn’thavethepowerorﬂexibility

of the list command – ls.

In your login directory, for example, type:

dir

Now, in the same xterm window, type:

Looks the same (see Figure 16.5). You see, among other contents, your new ﬁle, foo.bar and the

new directory, tigger.

Figure 16.5: The dir and ls commands seem similar

But here the similarities end. Where dir shows you the contents of your directory, it doesn’t actually

show you everything. Even using the ls command, by itself, won’t show you all the ﬁles in your

directory. To see everything, you’ve got to call upon an option or two.

For example, in the same window that you’dusedtotypethedir and ls commands, now type:

ls -a

1 2 ... 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 ... 299 300

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