On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 04:15:06PM -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:
> For repeated use within and between sessions, put 'from os import system
> as oss' in a startup file. Then one only needs "oss('dir')". Note that
> 'dir' only works on Windows; the unix equivalent is 'ls'.
Actually, on some Unix/Linux systems, ``dir`` is either an alias to
``ls``, or a similar but separate executable:
[steve@ando ~]$ which dir
/usr/bin/dir
(TIL that dir can be a seperate executable... I was convinced it was
only an alias until I tried it just now.)
--
Steve
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