What's the cmd line equivalent of "ls -a" in Powershell on Windows Vscode?-CodePudding

I want a to display ALL files (including hidden ones) on a directory in Powershell opened in Windows VsCode. I want the Powershell equivalent of 'ls -a'.

How do I do that?

I've tried:

dir ./d
dir /a
dir ./a
dir /ad
dir \h

...and many variations of these.

Any help?

Thanks

CodePudding user response：

The command in cmd to list all files (and directories) is dir /a.

PowerShell, on the other hand, has an alias named "dir" (obviously confusing) which actually calls the cmdlet Get-ChildItem which works different. dir /a in PowerShell would report an error:

"Get-ChildItem: Cannot find path 'C:\a' because it does not exist."

In order to see all files in PowerShell you would use either of

Get-ChildItem -Force
dir -Force

So which command to use in the end depends on your shell or terminal (with default or chosen shell).

CodePudding user response：

dir /a /b . is the syntax.

C:\tmp>dir /a /b .
hid
hidsys
nrm
sys

C:\tmp>attrib
A   H        C:\tmp\hid
A  SH        C:\tmp\hidsys
A            C:\tmp\nrm
A  S         C:\tmp\sys

CodePudding user response：

Try the following:

dir /s /b /o:gn

/s - displays all files in the specific directory subdirectories.

/b - strips heading information and summary from the output.

/o - sort the files in the list, followed by :gn - g sorts first folders, then files. n puts them in alphabetical order.