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Hi there.
I'm a fair beginner to the Pi, and have a question for the pi gods
The one thing that I find tedious when using the shell is doing "ls" after every time I do "cd". (I'm lazy)
Just wondering, how easy would it be to create a function combining cd and ls, say "cdl", that I could execute as one command?
And what file would I need to define it in?
Thanks very much for your patience with a beginner.

This isn't really a Raspberry Pi question, let alone a Bare Metal one. It's a Unix question...

anyway, you want

function cdl { cd $1; ls; }

added to your .bash_profile file in your home directory.


Try typing man bash.

edit: if you actually *do* this, and read it all, you'll find out about command completion and filename completion etc. Try ls TAB-key TAB-key. Then try man ls and ls -A.

I quite like navigating and viewing text files with lynx although it's main function is text based web browsing.
To access your current directory lynx . is all you need.

Richard S.