Dir

In computing:

• An abbreviation for directory (file systems).
• dir (command), a shell command.
• An executive director, the head of and organization or business.
• directory (OpenVMS command), an operating system command.
• Digital Instrumentation Recorder, a magnetic tape format by Sony.

Other uses:

• Dir (clan), one the four major Somali clans.
• Dir (Pakistan), a town in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
• Dir (princely state), a former princely state in the North-West Frontier Province, incorporated into Pakistan in 1969.
• Dir District in the North West Frontier Province, in 1996 split into two districts:
• Upper Dir, with its headquarters in Dir city, and
• Lower Dir, with its headquarters in Timargara.
• Division of Intramural Research, divisions of the National Institutes of Health.
• Askold and Dir, Viking rulers of Kiev.
• Doing It Right, a methodology for scuba diving.