"ls" command not working in windows 2008

[sudhap85]

Yes this CMD.exe and $root is just a variable which holds a directory name
and it would expand as
(virusscanbase is a directory)
“ls /tmp/virusScanBase >> resultfile”


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.
>> “ls $root/virusScanBase >> $resultfile”
>> 
>> 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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