Basics of the MKS Toolkit - Mks.com

General Purpose Tools
For information on all MKS
Toolkit commands, see the
online MKS Toolkit Utilities
Reference. For more
information on MKS
KornShell, MKS AWK, and
MKS MAKE, see their
respective online documents.
Listing a Directory
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To begin our overview, we’ll examine some of the simplest
commands in MKS Toolkit, commands that copy or print various
kinds of information. Try these examples on your computer as you
read them, and we encourage you to try any variations that come to
mind.
The ls and lc commands list the contents of a directory, much as the
Windows (in command.com or cmd.exe) dir command does. You can
enter either
or
ls
lc
to list your current working directory. To list the contents of a
different directory, add the relative or absolute name of the directory
you want to look at, as in
lc dira/dirb
lc c:abc/def/ghi
You might wonder why you should bother using ls or lc if the dir
command displays the same information; the answer is the way in
which that information is displayed. By default, dir prints an
unsorted list in one long column that quickly runs off the end of the
screen. ls does much the same thing, but sorts the list in alphabetical
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