Read-directory's command name — the call that asks a folder what it holds.
A Unix C library function name, a fused compound of read and directory; readdir names the call plainly for what it does, list what a folder holds, with no older ancestry beyond the two English words it is built from.
Read-directory's command name — the call that asks a folder what it holds. Named for its action rather than for any deeper history, in the plain style of the systems it comes from.