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Comment by jandrese | Hacker News Reader

I alias 'ls' to 'd' when I'm setting up an environment.

Do you mean that you have an alias like this:

  alias d='ls'

Or is there a program called `d` that is a faster version of `ls` that you're aliasing `ls` to?

Just an alias. I figure I could use a single letter command for something I do like 1/3 of the time on the commandline, especially since it's on the opposite hand from the enter key.

ls is actually pretty well optimized for an QWERTY layout already so it's not a big win, but it's something I've been doing for 25 years now so the habit is well ingrained.

Usually the alias is now:

  alias d="ls -F --color=auto"

on Linux systems.

It was the default since Mandriva/Linux Mandrake 6.2 too!

Why not just use a console file manager, like mc?

`nnn` is a console file manager.

`d` is taken by the much more important command `git diff`. I don't even have an alias for `ls`, I seldom use it, I mostly run `s` (which is an alias of `git status` of course).

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