Question

I want to make an alias that will add a space before and after each time I use ls.
If I use just ls the result is to close to the line above and under it it I sometimes find it hard and confusing to read the output. So I’ve started to use the line:

echo "\n"; ls something ; echo "\n"

Is there a way to put it in an alias, so that each time I’ll use the ls command it’ll automatically add the echo commands?

Answer 1

Don’t have csh/tcsh available so I cannot test, but this should work

alias ls 'echo "\n"; ls \!* ; echo "\n"'

Command line parameters in tcsh/csh:

• !! is the whole command line
• !* is all the arguments of the command
• !:1 is the first argument of the command
• !:2 is the second argument of the command
• !$ is the last argument of the command