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I often have to cd to a directory and ls to see the directory listing. Can it be done with one shot, so that I can add to .bashrc as alias. I searched on Google, there were some answers, but incomplete.

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motiur
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  • Maybe I misunderstand the question, but can't you just (instead of cd dir; ls ) just do ls dir? – tink May 08 '13 at 06:10

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I assume that this means that you want to still be in the directory after ls has run, if not, just run ls with the dir as an argument.

cl() {
    cd "$@" && ls
}

foo$ mkdir bar
foo$ > bar/baz
foo$ > bar/qux
foo$ cl bar
baz  qux
bar$
Chris Down
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