[CLUE-Tech] Changing view of ls command

[Michael J. Hammel]

Thus spoke Kevin Cullis
> However, I'd like to limit my search to just my home directory and not
> the .files to show up, don't need them.  Based on Grants comment, I
> would guess that I'm going to have to use sort to limit it to that.  I
> was wondering if I could modify something to display the kilobytes in
> the ls command, but alas, I can't.

You can write a bash (or ksh) function that does what you want, then alias
"ls" to that function.  This is what I do with vi and cd in order to get the 
name of the file being edited or the directory to which I've changed into 
the title bar of my xterms.  Here is how it's set up:

if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ] && [ "$0" = "bash" -o "$0" = "-bash" -o "$0" = "/bin/bash" ]
then
	ilabel () { echo -n "]1;$*"; }
	label () { echo -n "]2;$*"; }
   alias stripe='label $HOSTNAME - ${PWD#$HOME/}'
	alias stripe2='label $HOSTNAME - vi $*'
	cds () { "cd" $*; eval stripe; }
	vis () { eval stripe2; "vi" $*; eval stripe;}
	alias cd=cds
	alias vi=vis
	eval stripe
	# eval ilabel "$USER@$HOSTNAME"
	eval ilabel "$HOSTNAME"
fi

This is placed in my .bashrc file.  You can do something similar in order
to get ls to do what you're asking (even using command line args, which I
do with another alias for cscope).
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