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From: jewett@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Bob Jewett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Changing directories in ksh...
Message-ID: <63720001@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 88 04:41:37 GMT
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Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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> I would simply define a shell function:
> 	down(){ cd $1; ls; }

Almost right.  If the cd fails, you don't want to do the ls.  The (k)shell
function I use for this is:

   down() { cd $1 && /bin/ls -sF ; }

Bob Jewett