ls and alias (was Re: [Pan-users] Re: Forcing an expire?)

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-07-09 03:05, Duncan wrote:
> Ron Johnson <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:26:03
> -0500:
>
> > $ dir
> > total 427104
> > drwxr-xr-x   4 me me      4096 2009-07-09 01:25:21 ./ 
> > drwxr-xr-x 204 me me     36864 2009-07-09 01:25:03 ../
> > -rw-------   1 me me      6797 2009-07-09 01:11:47 accels.txt
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 me me     36864 2009-07-09 01:25:21 article-cache/
>
> NB:  That's strange, do you have dir aliased to dir -l or something?  Or 
> maybe your distribution does.  According to the dir info page, dir is 
> supposed to be the equivalent of ls -Cb, nothing about long output, so 
> just a plain dir shouldn't list anything but the names, as it does here.  
> But talking about ls... that's what I'm used to seeing.  I tend to forget 
> there's even a dir command until I see posts like this.

One of the entries in my /etc/bash_aliases :

$ alias dir
alias dir='ls -aFl --time-style=+"%F %T"'

> Of course that has nothing really to do with the issue of the thread, 
> thus the NB, but I found it interesting, none-the-less.


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