Question

Which is an equivalent powershell command for "ls"?

Answer 1

Answer:

Conveniently, there is the built-in ls alias for those who come from bash and dir for those who come from cmd.exe.

A parameter combination which is frequently used is ls -ltr, it sorts the items to get the most recently modified files at the end. The PowerShell equivalent would be 

Answer 2

An equivalent power shell command for "ls" is "dir".

• The path works like a tree that is important for navigating around the directories and not necessarily immediately above or below the current line.
• It is important to know that

        C:\Users\Ted\funWithPowerShell\dir

       to understand how computer organizes this. The trunk of c: is your hard

       drive. Your computer assigns a letters A and B are reserved for two

       floppy disk drives which long ago users interacted with.

• Thus, Users is a branch from c:, Ted  is a smaller branch coming off of users and so forth.