Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

[Russell Davies <russell.davies@aus.deuba.com>]

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; > I use alias ld=3D'ls -l | grep "^d"'
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; > Many interesting ways of doing the same thing :)
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; Just make sure you don't get that confused with the _real_ "ld" command (the
; GNU linker)!  :-P

Firstly, is that html really necessary? Secondly, you're better of using
shell functions than 'aliases', they're a lot more versatile. I have the
following builtins defined in my shell (rc) which could be trivially be
used in bash in a similar way.

fn ls  {builtin ls -F $*}
fn lsf {ls $*|sed '/[/@|]$/d;s/\*$//'}
fn lsd {ls $*|egrep -v '[^/]$|^\.\.?/$'}

r.