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Overview

The dirs command displays all directories currently in the watch list. These are the directories that will be indexed when you run know index.

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Syntax

know dirs

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Parameters

This command takes no parameters or options.

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Output

Displays a formatted table showing:
  • Directory number (for reference)
  • Full absolute path to each watched directory

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Examples

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List watched directories

know dirs

       Watched directories        
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  # │ Path                         
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  1 │ /home/user/documents         
  2 │ /home/user/projects/myapp    
  3 │ /home/user/notes             
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

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No directories added

know dirs

No directories added

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Use Cases

  • Verify which directories are being indexed
  • Check if a directory has been successfully added
  • Review the watch list before running know index
  • Identify directories to remove with know remove

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Storage Location

Watched directories are stored in ~/.know_dirs, with one directory path per line.

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See Also

  • know add - Add directories to watch list
  • know remove - Remove directories from watch list
  • know index - Index all watched directories

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