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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Changing directories in ksh...
Message-ID: <8214@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 5 Jul 88 04:07:20 GMT
References: <5318@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5318@dasys1.UUCP> pepper@dasys1.UUCP (Angeli "Ms. Pepper" Wahlstedt) writes:
>		alias down 'cd \!^; ls'
>But, here's the fun part...how do I do the same thing in ksh??

Since ksh is advertised as being compatible with the Bourne shell,
I would simply define a shell function:
	down(){ cd $1; ls; }