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Subject: Re: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls?
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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