Michael Bovee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I discovered that under SuSE 7.1 for PPC,
>that if I type ll <el, el>
>the output looks the same as if I had typed ls -l, but there is no
>man page for 'el el'?
If you want to find out where a command comes from, you can use bash's
command "type":
vanzandt:~ $ type -a ls
ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'
ls is /bin/ls
It's like "which", except it accounts for aliases and shell builtins:
vanzandt:~ $ type -a true
true is a shell builtin
true is /bin/true
FWIW, I like the long listing too, but am usually interested in recent
files. For a while, I defined an alias to "ls -lt|head". Eventually
that evolved into this script, which I name "lt":
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# = 1 ] && [ -d $1 ] ; then
(cd $1; /bin/ls --color=tty -F -T 0 -ldt -- $(ls -t|head))
elif [ $# = 0 ] ; then
/bin/ls --color=tty -F -T 0 -ldt -- $(ls -t -- $* | head)
else
/bin/ls --color=tty -F -T 0 -ldt -- $(ls -dt -- $* | head)
fi
It lists the most recent ten of the named files, or the files in the
(one) named directory, or the files in the current directory. It's
one of the first programs I install when I get an account on a new
machine.
- Jim Van Zandt
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