Unix Tip: DIR ALIAS REPRISE

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Unix Tip 2950 - March 5, 2010

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DIR ALIAS REPRISE

The following alias will list just the directories in a directory and not other ordinary files. It will list a directory as a directory even if the directory is a symbolic link.

alias dir='ls -Lla|grep ^d'

Without the capital "L" in this alias the alias will not list directories that are symbolic links.

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