[sclug] script or alias to page directory listings

[David Given]

On Monday 05 September 2005 12:37, John Stumbles wrote:
[...]
> Can anyone suggest how to do this (either as a script or a bash command
> alias)?

Use "$@":

myls() {
  ls "$@" | more
}

It's a special, magic, l33t monkey ninja special case shell expansion that's 
equivalent to "$1" "$2" ..., and if there aren't any arguments it expands 
into nothing.

There's no reason at all why you should know this unless you've spent far too 
much type groping through the sh man page. sh annoys me.

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