I've switched back and forth between UNIX, VMS, MS/DOS, and other OSes.
Others use
DIR
to do what
ls
does on UNIX.
I wrote a script that saves me retyping a command and gives me a
grin, too:
%
dir
Hey! This is UNIX! Well, okay... but just this once...
total 265
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ellie 47279 Dec 16 13:22 2edit.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jerry 21802 Nov 12 18:24 7911.ps
drwxrwsr-x 2 jerry 14848 Dec 24 07:17 RCS
hey
|
The Bourne shell script, named
hey
, is simple.
It prints its complaint to standard error so the message won't be
redirected into a file or down a pipe.
Then it tests the name you called it with (in this case,
dir
)
and runs the command you've configured it to run instead (here,
ls -l
): |
$@
|
case "$0" in
*dir) ls -l ${1+"$@"} ;;
*md) mkdir ${1+"$@"} ;;
...and so on...
esac
|
You can give the single
hey
script file as many names as you
want by making
links (
18.3
)
to it.
Article
8.8
shows a similar setup with a different purpose.