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Subject: Re: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls?
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> pls directory
>
> will give
>
> ls -l | less directory
>
> which is not what one want.

Try the following:

bourne shells:
alias pls='ls $* | less'

or for csh/tcsh:
alias pls 'ls $* | less'

Thanks,
Josh