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Angry list contents of directory
I want to list the contents of a directory, but I do not want to use the ls, is there another way??
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that will give you the contents of the subdirectories as well, is that OK?
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that will give you the contents of the subdirectories as well, is that OK?
To limit it to the current directory, you can run it with these options:
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find -maxdepth 1
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