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ryedunn 12-19-2006 04:21 PM
alias
 
is it possible to setup an alias for cd to automatically give me an ls?

for example: alias -x cdls="cd $whatever:ls -la"

Dudydoo 12-19-2006 04:39 PM
alias cdls='cd $whatever; ls -la'

ryedunn 12-19-2006 07:27 PM
that will work for any directory? so now if I put cdls /home its the same as
$cd /home
$ls -la

correcT?

Dudydoo 12-20-2006 02:30 PM
Yes.

To be more precise, if you set your alias like this:

Code:
alias cdls='cd $1; ls -la $1'
the $1 means the first argument given to `cdls` (which is the path)

so if you type:

Code:
cdls /tmp
the shell interprets it as:

Code:
cd /tmp; ls -la /tmp
also to make this permanent add the alias line to your ~/.bashrc file.

Dudydoo 12-20-2006 04:30 PM
I have since found that the above doesn't actually work as intended, apparently aliases don't work with arguments inside the command string; therefore you must use shell functions instead.

Type this in your ~/.bashrc instead:

Code:
cdls() {

    cd $1;
    ls -la $1

}

ryedunn 12-21-2006 05:24 PM
great, thank you


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