mdir(1)			    General Commands Manual		       mdir(1)



Name
       mdir - display an MSDOS directory



Note of warning
       This  manpage  has  been	 automatically generated from mtools's texinfo
       documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete.   See  the
       end of this man page for details.

Description
       The mdir command is used to display an MS-DOS directory. Its syntax is:

       mdir [-/] [-f] [-w] [-a] [-b] msdosfile [ msdosfiles...]

       Mdir  displays  the  contents of MS-DOS directories, or the entries for
       some MS-DOS files.

       Mdir supports the following command line options:

       /      Recursive output, just like Dos' -s option

       w      Wide output.  With this option, mdir prints the filenames across
	      the page without displaying the file size or creation date.

       a      Also list hidden files.

       f      Fast.   Do  not  try  to	find out free space.  On larger disks,
	      finding out the amount of free space takes up some  non  trivial
	      amount  of  time,	 as the whole FAT must be read in and scanned.
	      The -f flag bypasses this step.  This  flag  is  not  needed  on
	      FAT32 filesystems, which store the size explicitely.

       b      Concise  listing. Lists each directory name or filename, one per
	      line (including the filename extension). This switch displays no
	      heading  information  and	 no  summary. Only a newline separated
	      list of pathnames is displayed.

       An error occurs if a component of the path is not a directory.

See Also
       Mtools' texinfo doc

Viewing the texi doc
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       items, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in  this
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       the original texinfo doc.  See the end of this manpage for instructions
       how to view the texinfo doc.

       *      To  generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the fol-
	      lowing commands:

		     ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi



       *      To generate a html copy,	run:

		     ./configure; make html

	      A	 premade  html	can  be	 found	at   `http://www.gnu.org/soft-
	      ware/mtools/manual/mtools.html'

       *      To  generate  an	info  copy (browsable using emacs' info mode),
	      run:

		     ./configure; make info



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       the  info  version  certain  examples  are difficult to read due to the
       quoting conventions used in info.

mtools-4.0.12			    03Nov09			       mdir(1)