— Command: cd dir
— Command: chdir dir

Change the current working directory to dir. If dir is omitted, the current directory is changed to the user's home directory. For example,

          cd ~/octave

changes the current working directory to ~/octave. If the directory does not exist, an error message is printed and the working directory is not changed.

See also: mkdir, rmdir, dir.

— Command: ls options

List directory contents. For example:

          ls -l
               -| total 12
               -| -rw-r--r--   1 jwe  users  4488 Aug 19 04:02 foo.m
               -| -rw-r--r--   1 jwe  users  1315 Aug 17 23:14 bar.m

The dir and ls commands are implemented by calling your system's directory listing command, so the available options may vary from system to system.

See also: dir, stat, readdir, glob, filesep, ls_command.

— Function File: val = ls_command ()
— Function File: old_val = ls_command (new_val)

Query or set the shell command used by Octave's ls command.

See also: ls.

— Function File: dir (directory)
— Function File: [list] = dir (directory)

Display file listing for directory directory. If a return value is requested, return a structure array with the fields

          name
          bytes
          date
          isdir
          statinfo

in which statinfo is the structure returned from stat.

If directory is not a directory, return information about the named filename. directory may be a list of directories specified either by name or with wildcard characters (like * and ?) which will be expanded with glob.

Note that for symbolic links, dir returns information about the file that a symbolic link points to instead of the link itself. However, if the link points to a nonexistent file, dir returns information about the link.

See also: ls, stat, lstat, readdir, glob, filesep.

— Built-in Function: pwd ()

Return the current working directory.

See also: dir, ls.