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Why do "ls" in UNIX and "dir" in DOS have different names?
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Mar 15, 20262183 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Why do they have different names for the same command, listing a directory? Surely, they could have talked to each other and agreed on one common name, such as for example which is the same for both unix and dos. This decision to have different names has created many headaches for developers and us…
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Note that Unix came first (the wording of your question makes it look like it was the other way round). DOS inherited the command from CP/M, which got it from VMS. The character to introduce options (which forced DOS to adopt a different character a…
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