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Re: "ls" command not working in windows 2008
Yes this CMD.exe and $root is just a variable which holds a directory name
and it would expand as
(virusscanbase is a directory)
âls /tmp/virusScanBase >> resultfileâ
Greg Chicares-2 wrote:
>
> 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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