Talk:DIR

Best in what sense?

ls is best combined with grep if you plan on doing any filtering: dir *.txt is equivalent to ls | grep .txt, and dir boogy*.* is equivalent to ls | grep boogy.

What is "best" about this? Ninereasons 20:02, 19 June 2006 (EDT)

grep > simple wildcarding

"best" in the sense that you get far more fine grained control out of piping to grep than you would with the use of simple wildcards.