28th January 2014 - 3 minutes read time
When navigating around a Linux box I tend to find I use the same two commands a lot. The first is 'cd' to change a directory, and the second is 'ls' in order to see what is in the new directory. Rather than do this over and over again I decided to look around for a good solution to automate this.
I found a variety of results on the internet, but some were simply creating a different alias that wrapped the same two commands. I found this example on superuser, which solves the problem quite nicely. Here is the example in full.
