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10 Directory listing
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This chapter describes the ‘ls’ command and its variants ‘dir’ and
‘vdir’, which list information about files.

* Menu:

* ls invocation::               List directory contents.
* dir invocation::              Briefly ls.
* vdir invocation::             Verbosely ls.
* dircolors invocation::        Color setup for ls, etc.