Question

Give a command that will create a file named listing.dat, in your current (commandsAsst) directory, containing a list of all the files in your fileAsst directory. I need to use redirection, and have tried almost every variation of ls -a < ~/UnixCourse/fileAsst. > listing.dat Primarlily the error I get is that I did not create the 'listing.dat file with ALL of the files located in ../fileAsst/ When I run the same command in another terminal window, then verify with ls -a I can see that I did indeed create the listing.dat file. Can someone tell me what it is I am missing?

Answer 1

Following are the command to this question:

"ls -a ~/UnixCourse/fileAsst > listing.dat"

Explanation:

The above-given code will create a file, that is "listing.dat", and this file will be created in your current directory, which will include the list of all files in the file-asst directory.

In this, Is command is used that uses the directory that is "UnixCourse/fileAsst" and inside this, it will create the "dat" file that is "listing".