i m going through my rd9 cds for a particular rpm.
is there an equivalent dir /s [DOS] command in linux
i have gone through the ls man page but i did not see any resemblence

i know this must have been ask a million times, but i did i search in da forum n did not find any ???

tq tq tq

I know that dir works in console for linux but im not sure about the swith your using, in dos for dir i would type dir /p to scroll by the page and i havent figured out what command makes it do dir by the page maybe somone more learned would know

To do a recursive directory listing like dir /s try the following: ls -Rl (case sensitive)

To stop a listing after each page, do the following: ls | more (the | is a pipe, use shift + \)

wat i m tryin to do is a search for all of the *.rpm/other files on my hdd
i will normally do a "dir /s *.bat" to list out all the *.bat files in the current dir and subdir

i tried using "ls -Rl *.rpm" but it does not work????

[root@cactuar /]# ls -Rl *.rpm
ls: *.rpm: No such file or directory

well i did ls *gif and it showed just the gif files. I don't understand what your trying to accomplish with the RI options. i don't see any of those options when i do man ls. So try just doing ls *rpm. I think what your doing is that ls is thiking your looking for -RI in a directory labeled *.rpm.

also if your looking for the rpms cuz you want to know what you have installed you can just do
rpm -qa
and that will list all the rpms you have installed. Or if you want to check for a specific program to see if it is installed you can do rpm -qa | grep "programname"

wat i m tryin to do is jus list out all the files that ends with *.sh
it will search through the current dir and all the subdir and finally list out all the files that ends with .sh

well then i think you can do ls -R / | grep *.sh to do the trick. Correct me if im wrong and someone knows a better way.

Also
or
if you're already in the right directory.

yeah tat did the trick

thanx a million