Question

I’m using Crunchbang (linux) on a virtual machine and every time I change directory I automatically do an ls to check what is there. I’m assuming that it is possible to write a script to make it do this automatically. I’m also assuming it would be a bash script of some kind, but I have maybe once written one so I wouldn’t know where to start. Can anyone give me some pointers of how to go about this?

Answer 1

Add this to ~/.bash_profile

foo ()
{
  history 1 >q
  read k <q
  rm q
  set $k
  if [ $2 = cd ]
  then
    ls
  fi
}    
PROMPT_COMMAND=foo

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