Commands with options: (was: war story: parallel(1) command)

[Ben Walton]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:55 PM,  <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> How about ls -d */   ?
>
> That's much easier to remember, but my understanding is that only works in
> bash.

If you're using a shell that doesn't expand */ properly, you've got
larger problems. :) (I just checked an ancient IRIX box with tcsh and
it supported it.)

> ls -colour | more.

export LESS="-F -X -R -M"
ls -color | less

Thanks
-Ben
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