Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:42:37 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls? Message-ID: <20061221204237.GC40028@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20061221194409.GA1515@host.my.domain> References: <20061219195359.GA34750@host.my.domain> <20061221184535.GB40028@dan.emsphone.com> <20061221194409.GA1515@host.my.domain>
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In the last episode (Dec 21), a@zeos.net said:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:35PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Dec 19), a@zeos.net said:
> > > Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls, i. e. ls | less ?
>
> Thank you for response, but I know how to write aliases and bash
> scripts. I just thought, I don't know the standard way.
>
> Apropos,
> alias pls="ls -l | less"
> is not a proper way, because of the command
>
> pls directory
>
> will give
>
> ls -l | less directory
>
> which is not what one want.
Yes, that is a limitation of aliases. Luckily, shell functions can do
what you want:
pls() {
ls -l "$@" | less
}
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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