Life on the Command Line

[Dougal]

Did you know that in a terminal, in X or outside of X you can interchange the use of "ls" (linux command) and "dir" (dos command)?
Is this to make windows converts comfortable?

Yes, it's just a matter of including

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alias dir='ls'

in .bashrc...

I've also added to my .bashrc something to make it easier for working from the CLI: with a file manager, when you move to a directory, you immediately see which files are there, so I added

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function qq(){ 
	cd "$1"
	if [ -n "$2" ] ; then
		ls *${2}
	else
		ls
	fi
}

which works thus

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# qq /tmp/    
bootcnt.txt      flashgot.r3y1skkw.slt  modprobe.udev-debug  xerrs.log
bootkernel.log   geany_socket.43bd6348  oldmousedevice
bootsysinit.log  hotpupfifo             photos
boot-timing      modprobes.log          videos
# qq /tmp/ log
bootkernel.log  bootsysinit.log  modprobes.log  xerrs.log
# pwd
/tmp
# 

So with one short command you get to a directory and see its contents...

[faifpuhp]

I've also added to my .bashrc something to make it easier for working from the CLI: with a file manager, when you move to a directory, you immediately see which files are there, so I added

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function qq(){ 
	cd "$1"
	if [ -n "$2" ] ; then
		ls *${2}
	else
		ls
	fi
}

So with one short command you get to a directory and see its contents...

Brilliant!