--- a/scripts/miscellaneous/dir.m	Fri Oct 27 14:02:16 2006 +0000
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/dir.m	Fri Oct 27 17:58:06 2006 +0000
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
 
 ## Author: jwe
 
+## PKG_ADD: mark_as_command dir
+
 ## FIXME -- this is quite slow for large directories, so perhaps
 ## it should be converted to C++.
 

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/ls.m	Fri Oct 27 17:58:06 2006 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+## Copyright (C) 2006 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+## any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
+## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+## 02110-1301, USA.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deffn {Command} ls options
+## List directory contents.  For example,
+## 
+## @example
+## ls -l
+##      @print{} total 12
+##      @print{} -rw-r--r--   1 jwe  users  4488 Aug 19 04:02 foo.m
+##      @print{} -rw-r--r--   1 jwe  users  1315 Aug 17 23:14 bar.m
+## @end example
+## 
+## The @code{dir} and @code{ls} commands are implemented by calling your
+## system's directory listing command, so the available options may vary
+## from system to system.
+## @seealso{dir, stat, readdir, glob, filesep, ls_command}
+## @end deffn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+## PKG_ADD: mark_as_command ls
+
+function retval = ls (varargin)
+
+  global __ls_command__;
+
+  if (isempty (__ls_command__) || ! ischar (__ls_command__))
+    ## Initialize value for __ls_command__.
+    ls_command ();
+  endif
+
+  if (iscellstr (varargin))
+
+    args = tilde_expand (varargin);
+
+    cmd = sprintf ("%s ", __ls_command__, args{:});
+
+    if (page_screen_output ())
+
+      [status, output] = system (cmd);
+
+      if (status == 0)
+	puts (output);
+      else
+	error ("ls: command exited abnormally with status %d", status);
+      endif
+
+    else
+      ## Just let the output flow if the pager is off.  That way the
+      ## output from things like "ls -R /" will show up immediately and
+      ## we won't have to buffer all the output.
+      system (cmd);
+    endif
+    
+  else
+    error ("ls: expecting all arguments to be character strings");
+  endif
+
+endfunction

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/ls_command.m	Fri Oct 27 17:58:06 2006 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+## Copyright (C) 2006 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+## any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
+## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+## 02110-1301, USA.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{old_cmd} =} ls_command (@var{cmd})
+## Set or return the shell command used by Octave's @code{ls} command.
+## The value of @var{cmd} must be a character string.
+## With no arguments, simply return the previous value.
+## @seealso{ls}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function old_cmd = ls_command (cmd)
+
+  global __ls_command__;
+
+  if (isempty (__ls_command__))
+    ## FIXME -- ispc and isunix both return true for Cygwin.  Should they?
+    if (ispc () && ! isunix () && isempty (file_in_path (EXEC_PATH, "ls")))
+      __ls_command__ = "cmd /C dir /w";
+    else
+      __ls_command__ = "ls -C";
+    endif
+  endif
+
+  if (nargin == 0 || nargin == 1)
+
+    old_cmd = __ls_command__;
+
+    if (nargin == 1)
+      if (ischar (cmd))
+	__ls_command__ = cmd;
+      else
+	error ("ls_command: expecting argument to be a character string");
+      endif
+    endif
+
+  endif
+
+endfunction