dinfo = dir('/home/directory');
files = {dinfo.name};
Note that the directory will not be included as part of what is stored in files
Do not use ls() for this purpose: On OS-X and Linux it invokes the shell ls command, which produces multiple columns per line, space separated, with embedded newline characters. You might be tempted to use that and then to split at whitespace, but if you do that then you will accidentally file names that contain whitespace in them. The dir() that I show will not have problems this way.
