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Re: "ls" command not working in windows 2008
- From: Greg Chicares <gchicares at sbcglobal dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:35:47 +0000
- Subject: Re: "ls" command not working in windows 2008
- References: <22907575.post@talk.nabble.com>
On 2009-04-06 12:14Z, sudhap85 wrote:
> I tried to list the contents of a directory in DOS command prompt and
> redirecting it to a file.This did not add the contents at all.
> âls $root/virusScanBase >> $resultfileâ
>
> As an alternative to this I tried to use
> "echo $root/virusScanBase/*" but this just returns * and not the directory
> contents(in Linux it works as expected by listing direcory contents)
What shell are you using? By "DOS command prompt", do you mean CMD.EXE?
Or is this Cygwin's 'bash'?
What output do you see from the following commands?
echo $root
echo %root%
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