Dear Debian users,

Some old systems insists you type 'ls' and do not provide an alias do 'dir'.
I loved this behavior.

How can I make debian squeeze honor 'ls' again, and print a funny
message to those who try to type 'dir'?

I've look for a clean way to disable 'dir', but found nothing on
~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_alias, /etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/profile. Nor the
command 'alias' give me any 'dir' alias.

Thanks all,

Beco

PS. For those who still use dual boot: in your windows box, open
notepad and type:

@dir /w /p %*

Save as ls.bat in C:WindowsSystem32



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On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:08:40 -0300
rcb <rcb@beco.cc> wrote:

Hello rcb,

> Some old systems insists you type 'ls' and do not provide an alias do
> 'dir'.

dir isn't an alias. At least, not on my testing system.

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:08:40 -0300, rcb wrote:

> Some old systems insists you type 'ls' and do not provide an alias do
> 'dir'. I loved this behavior.
>
> How can I make debian squeeze honor 'ls' again, and print a funny
> message to those who try to type 'dir'?
>
> I've look for a clean way to disable 'dir', but found nothing on
> ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_alias, /etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/profile. Nor the
> command 'alias' give me any 'dir' alias.

(...)

Can't you just add the alias manually? :-?

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 08:08, rcb <rcb@beco.cc> wrote:
> Dear Debian users,
>
> Some old systems insists you type 'ls' and do not provide an alias do 'dir'.
> I loved this behavior.
>
> How can I make debian squeeze honor 'ls' again, and print a funny
> message to those who try to type 'dir'?
>
> I've look for a clean way to disable 'dir', but found nothing on
> ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_alias, /etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/profile. Nor the
> command 'alias' give me any 'dir' alias.


Well, I believe dir is built into modern versions of GNU coreutils,
rather than being an alias or something:

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dir-invocation.html#dir-invocation

But you can still override it. You could alias it to a shell script
that prints something or make it a function. Do it in /etc/ and it
affects everyone of course.

Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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rcb:
>
> How can I make debian squeeze honor 'ls' again, and print a funny
> message to those who try to type 'dir'?

apt-get install sl

alias dir=sl

Doesn't work for root because /usr/games/ is usually not in its path.

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Hello Jochen,

Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
> apt-get install sl
>
> alias dir=sl
>
> Doesn't work for root because /usr/games/ is usually not in its path.

Nothing stops you from providing the full path :-) Try

$ which sl

to get it.

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:10:20 -0300
Dr Beco <rcb@beco.cc> wrote:

Hello Dr,

> I'm astonished! 'dir' is now officially a linux command! My gosh.

Not used it myself, since I've been so used to ls. I only tried to find
because of your initial post on the subject. "which dir" showed where
it resides. A comparison between dir and ls using the --version and
--help options reveals that, in fact, they're, essentially, the same
program.

> Just save the alias in /etc/profile.d/bash_aliases.sh and we are done.
> (But I think a rm /bin/dir is also applicable)

Every time there's an update to coreutils dir will be back, don't
forget. Anyhow, won't the alias take precedence? If yes, why bother
removing dir?

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 08:57:28PM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > Just save the alias in /etc/profile.d/bash_aliases.sh and we are done.
> > (But I think a rm /bin/dir is also applicable)
>
> Every time there's an update to coreutils dir will be back, don't
> forget. Anyhow, won't the alias take precedence? If yes, why bother
> removing dir?

In addition, the bash profile is not an option since that probably
applies only for those who have their shell as bash; users choosing
another shell would probably still see dir.

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:13:42 -0500, Kumar wrote in message
<20120320031342.GA19982@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in >:

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 08:57:28PM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > > Just save the alias in /etc/profile.d/bash_aliases.sh and we are
> > > done. (But I think a rm /bin/dir is also applicable)
> >
> > Every time there's an update to coreutils dir will be back, don't
> > forget. Anyhow, won't the alias take precedence? If yes, why
> > bother removing dir?
>
> In addition, the bash profile is not an option since that probably
> applies only for those who have their shell as bash; users choosing
> another shell would probably still see dir.

..they probably deserve seeing it. ;o)

> Kumar


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