[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I use the following (which I don't use that often to be honest):
>
> alias lld='find -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name ".*" -printf "%P\n" | xargs ls
> -lUd --color'
Thanks for sharing that alias with the group. But I noticed some
optimizations that could be made to it.
* For an lld alias it would seem simpler to grep ^d from ll output.
alias lld='ls -l | grep ^d'
I did not add --color or -U here because it will pick up whatever
alias for ls that you already have and any options associated with
it.
* Instead of --color I think it is better to use --color=auto. This
way it works into pipes similarly to the -1 being implied when
writing to a pipe. Here is the info doc snippet:
Specifying `--color' and no WHEN is equivalent to `--color=always'.
Piping a colorized listing through a pager like `more' or `less'
usually produces unreadable results. However, using `more -f'
does seem to work.
* But your example really shines with a simple columnar ls listing
trying to get just the directories. Paraphrasing your example into
an lsd example, and ignoring ARG_MAX for the moment:
alias lsd='ls -d $(find -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name ".*" -printf "%P\n")'
I would probably make these either functions or shell scripts. I
personally prefer shell scripts because then they work with other
things that want external commands. In either case they could then be
modified to take arguments.
#!/bin/sh
ls -d "$@" $(find -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name ".*" -printf "%P\n")
Bob
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