Not a fan of touchpads, so I tend to do all of my regular file navigation in the terminal. I've done cd path/to/whatever <enter> ls
so many times that it's just muscle memory now and feels more natural than using a GUI to navigate files. However, sometimes when there's a lot of files stacked in several columns, it can be less than intuitive to find what I'm looking for. I know I can just to ls -l
to list them like that (plus some extra info), but I don't what to have to type that every time. But even if there was a way to just permanently tag the -l
flag onto every ls
command, that would work too. Anyone know how I can accomplish this? Also, it would be nice if once this were accomplished there was a way to tag something onto an ls
command in case every once in a while I did need to list them the normal way.
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It is very easy. Add a line
alias ls='ls -l'
to your ~/.bashrc
file and restart the terminal.
You will be able to run ls
a normal way without -l
this way
\ls
-
@Nathan there's also
ls -1
which stacks in one column without the extra detail.– terdonSep 11, 2015 at 11:03