dir to ls

loganwva · 04-22-2002, 03:29 PM

How do you get a Windows DOS terminal to recognize the ls command as a long listing to replace the dir command?

Thanks

acid_kewpie · 04-22-2002, 03:35 PM

what do you mean by "recognise"??

loganwva · 04-22-2002, 03:48 PM

When I open a DOS I want to be able to type "ls" instead of "dir" to get a directory listing. That would keep it much simpler for me.

boblucci · 04-22-2002, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by loganwva
When I open a DOS I want to be able to type "ls" instead of "dir" to get a directory listing. That would keep it much simpler for me.

is it that hard to remeber "dir"

l_9_l · 04-22-2002, 04:08 PM

Firstly this is not a Linux-related question! there's an appartment in this site for these questions,next time,when you have such questions,please post it in this forum-->Non-*NIX-Forum

Anyway,to have the UNIX commands under DOS,you can use cygwin
for that purpose.

Good Luck

acid_kewpie · 04-22-2002, 04:28 PM

well, cygwin is vastly OTT for what they want. There's a unix utils package out there with some simple ports of ls and all that. just search around a bit.

Glock Shooter · 04-22-2002, 10:05 PM

make a batch file called ls.bat and the only thing you need in the whole file is "dir"

PimpNasty · 04-22-2002, 10:14 PM

I have seen a method before of using an alias in autoexec.bat but what exactly to do i escaping me at the moment. I found ls ported to DOS HERE (I think I have used this before and it worked good)