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Alias ls="ls -1 -c -t | less"

The idea is:

turn yourself into a human LRU cache for filenames. Whenever you enter a directory and ls, you see a sorted, fullscreen, scrollable list of the files you used in that dir recently, which are probably the ones you want to see again!

Breakdown:

"-c -t" sort by time last changed "-1" to ease reading "| less" so that if (output nLines) > (screen height), the first lines (best sorted results) get shown

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Perhaps in a similar vein, I use `alias new='ls -ltr | tail'` Lets me quickly see what files in a directory were just added. Useful for ~/downloads/, tarballs that didn't create their own directory, and whatnot.

Good idea. I've been using this to sort by time:

  alias lt='ls -ltr'

And this to sort by name:

  alias ll='ls -l'

I traditionally use 'ls -lart' because I like the LART reference.

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